Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 199.26

$ 39.90

$ 159.36 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4392 points

4409 points

0.39% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5377 points

3% slightly better gaming score

5193 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4064 points

4156 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3979 points

4086 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the Xeon E5-1660 v3 and the Xeon E5-2640 v4? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download CPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

148.95 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

127.64 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8091 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

5966 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1373 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1033 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7100 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5632 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1291 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1047 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

90 W

55% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

401st of 1,089

399th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1333

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Xeon E5-2640 v4 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 is faster than the Xeon E5-2640 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2640 v4 has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-1660 v3. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v4 has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Xeon E5-1660 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1660 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2640 v4. Also, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2640 v4 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.