Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Intel Xeon W-10855M

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon W 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon W-10855M

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$ 199.26

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$ 3476.43

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4392 points

4738 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5377 points

6797 points

26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4064 points

4108 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3979 points

0.10% slightly better heavy workload score

3975 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

148.95 points

81% significantly higher Blender score

82.06 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7100 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5753 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1291 points

1494 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

7% slightly higher clock speed

2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

5.1 GHz

45% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

45 W

211% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

128 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

401st of 1,089

371st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Xeon W

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1333

DDR4-2933

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Xeon W-10855M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W-10855M beats the Xeon E5-1660 v3 in overall performance. 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 E5-1660 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon W-10855M has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-10855M. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon W-10855M. Despite this, the Xeon W-10855M has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon W-10855M 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.

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.