Intel Xeon E5-1660 vs AMD Custom 0405

Xeon E5-1660 vs Custom 0405 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1660 is faster than the Custom 0405. Despite this, the Custom 0405 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-1660 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Custom 0405 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Custom 0405. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1660 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Custom 0405.

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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.