Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2

Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Xeon E5-1680 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 beats the Xeon E5-1680 v2 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1680 v2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. The Xeon E5-1680 v2 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1660 v4 thanks to a slightly 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 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.