Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Intel Xeon X5680

Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Xeon X5680 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 beats the Xeon X5680 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5680 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Xeon X5680 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5680. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1660 v3. Also, the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon X5680 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.

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.