Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Intel Xeon X5680

Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Xeon X5680 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 beats the Xeon X5680 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5680 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has slightly more cores than the Xeon X5680. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon X5680. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5680. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1660 v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon X5680 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.