Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4

Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Xeon E5-2683 v4 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 beats the Xeon E5-2683 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2683 v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2683 v4 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1660 v4. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2683 v4 has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Xeon E5-1660 v4. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1660 v4. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2683 v4. Also, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2683 v4 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.