Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 is faster than the Xeon E5-1660 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1660 v4 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon E5-1660 v4 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1660 v4. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3.

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.