Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 beats the Xeon E5-1660 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-1660 v3. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3.

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.