Intel Xeon E5-1660 vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2

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$ 614.29

$ 49.00

$ 565.29 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3673 points

13% slightly better overall score

3224 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4854 points

31% slightly better gaming score

3691 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3294 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

3095 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3198 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

3090 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

65.07 points

78.25 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4536 points

4896 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

761 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

547 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3040 points

3197 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

618 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

457 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

30% slightly higher turbo speed

3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

256 GiB

768 GiB

200% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

465th of 1,089

508th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1660 vs Xeon E5-2660 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2660 v2 beats the Xeon E5-1660 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1660 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2660 v2 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon E5-1660 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1660. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1660 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2660 v2. Also, the Xeon E5-1660 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2660 v2 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1660 thanks to a slightly 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.