Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4392 points

4559 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5377 points

5695 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4064 points

4175 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3979 points

4067 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

148.95 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

90.67 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8091 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3887 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1373 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

625 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7100 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4201 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1291 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

690 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

130 W

7% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

401st of 1,089

384th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Xeon E5-1680 v2 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1680 v2 performs better than the Xeon E5-1660 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. The Xeon E5-1680 v2 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1660 v3 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.