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

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3

Price

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$ 199.26

$ 56.33 slightly less expensive

$ 255.59

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4392 points

5860 points

33% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5377 points

10% slightly better gaming score

4866 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4064 points

6204 points

52% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3979 points

6340 points

59% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

148.95 points

192.94 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8091 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

7657 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1373 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1060 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7100 points

7404 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1291 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1086 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

75% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

3% slightly lower TDP

145 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB

Identical

768 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

401st of 1,089

263rd 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

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

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

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 is faster than the Xeon E5-1660 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Xeon E5-1660 v3 that has 8 cores. 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 E5-2697 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-1660 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.