Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2

Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Xeon E5-2667 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 beats the Xeon E5-2667 v2 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1660 v4. Also, the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2667 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.