Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-1660

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 6 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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$ 229.95

$ 384.34 significantly less expensive

$ 614.29

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3665 points

3673 points

0.22% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5028 points

3% slightly better gaming score

4854 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3232 points

3294 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3132 points

3198 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

72.62 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

65.07 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3177 points

4536 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

637 points

761 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3309 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3040 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

672 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

618 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

Identical

3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

Identical

130 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

256 GiB

Identical

256 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

467th of 1,089

465th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

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 E5-1650 v2 vs Xeon E5-1660 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1660 performs better than the Xeon E5-1650 v2. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1650 v2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1650 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-1660. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. 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. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1650 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.