Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2

Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Xeon E5-2697 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 beats the Xeon E5-2697 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1660 v3. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Xeon E5-1660 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1660 v3. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v2. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2697 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.

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.