Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Intel Xeon E5-2637 v4

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4751 points

4813 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5819 points

1% slightly better gaming score

5729 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4397 points

4521 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4304 points

4429 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

132.21 points

93% significantly higher Blender score

68.37 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6895 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3758 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

900 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

741 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6435 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4183 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1161 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1122 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.5 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

135 W

3% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

369th of 1,089

366th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Xeon E5-2637 v4 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2637 v4 is faster than the Xeon E5-1660 v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-2637 v4. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-2637 v4. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2637 v4. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2637 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-1660 v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2637 v4 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.

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 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.