Intel Xeon E5-1660 vs Intel Xeon E3-1535M v6

Xeon E5-1660 vs Xeon E3-1535M v6 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1535M v6 beats the Xeon E5-1660 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1660 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-1660 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1535M v6. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1535M v6. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1535M v6. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1535M v6. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1535M v6 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1535M 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.

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.