Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Intel Xeon E3-1505M v6

Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Xeon E3-1505M v6 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 beats the Xeon E3-1505M v6 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1505M v6 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1505M v6 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1505M v6. In terms of clock speed, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 and Xeon E3-1505M v6 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1505M v6 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1505M v6 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1660 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.