Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Intel Xeon E5-2643 v2

Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Xeon E5-2643 v2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2643 v2 is faster than the Xeon E5-1660 v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2643 v2 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2643 v2. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2643 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1660 v4. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2643 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.

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.