Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3

Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Xeon E5-2673 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2673 v3 beats the Xeon E5-1660 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1660 v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2673 v3 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1660 v4. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2673 v3 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Xeon E5-1660 v4. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1660 v4. The Xeon E5-2673 v3 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.