Intel Xeon E5-1660 vs Intel Xeon E5-2670

Xeon E5-1660 vs Xeon E5-2670 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1660 beats the Xeon E5-2670 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2670 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2670 has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-1660. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2670 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-1660. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1660. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1660 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2670. Also, the Xeon E5-1660 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2670 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.