Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2

Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Xeon E5-2690 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has 8 cores. 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 slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690 v2. Also, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2690 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.