Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Intel Xeon X5675

Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Xeon X5675 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 is faster than the Xeon X5675. Despite this, the Xeon X5675 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Xeon X5675 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5675. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5675. Also, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon X5675 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1660 v4 thanks to a significantly 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.