Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Xeon E5-2687W benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 beats the Xeon E5-2687W in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2687W has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1660 v3. Also, the Xeon E5-2687W has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-1660 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W CPU because of its slightly 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.