Intel Xeon E5-1660 vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 v6

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v6 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3673 points

3% slightly better overall score

3566 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4854 points

5948 points

22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3294 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

2868 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3198 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

2754 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

65.07 points

88.58 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3040 points

4634 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

618 points

1433 points

131% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.79 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4.2 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

72 W

80% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

256 GiB

300% significantly more supported memory

64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

465th of 1,089

478th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Xeon E3 v6 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1660 vs Xeon E3-1270 v6 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1660 beats the Xeon E3-1270 v6 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1270 v6 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 Xeon E3-1270 v6 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1270 v6. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1270 v6 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1660. Also, the Xeon E3-1270 v6 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1270 v6 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1660 thanks to a significantly 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.