Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel 12 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

4747 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5377 points

13% slightly better gaming score

4747 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4064 points

4738 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3979 points

4727 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

148.95 points

150.60 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8091 points

429% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1528 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1373 points

192% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7100 points

364% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1527 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1291 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

712 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

110 W

27% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

401st of 1,089

370th 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 E5-2673 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2673 v3 is faster 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2673 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1660 v3. The Xeon E5-2673 v3 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.

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 E5-1660 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.