Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3

Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Xeon E5-2676 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2676 v3 beats the Xeon E5-1660 v4 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2676 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Xeon E5-1660 v4 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1660 v4. The Xeon E5-2676 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.