Intel Xeon E5-1660 vs Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2

Xeon E5-1660 vs Xeon E5-2667 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2667 v2 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 E5-2667 v2 has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-1660. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-1660. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1660. In terms of clock speed, the Xeon E5-1660 and Xeon E5-2667 v2 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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.