Intel Xeon E5-1603 vs Intel Xeon E5-1660

Compare Intel 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1660

Price

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$ 752.00

$ 614.29

$ 137.71 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1564 points

3673 points

134% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2883 points

4854 points

68% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1194 points

3294 points

175% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1145 points

3198 points

179% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

22.30 points

65.07 points

191% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1999 points

4536 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

567 points

761 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1475 points

3040 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points

618 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

Identical

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

814th of 1,120

484th of 1,120

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1603 vs Xeon E5-1660 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1660 performs better than the Xeon E5-1603. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1603 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-1660 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1603. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-1603. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1603. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Xeon E5-1603 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.