Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Intel Xeon Silver 4114

Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Xeon Silver 4114 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 performs better than the Xeon Silver 4114. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Silver 4114 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Silver 4114 has slightly more cores with 10 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 Silver 4114. Also, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon Silver 4114 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1660 v3 thanks to a significantly 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.