Intel Xeon E5-1660 vs Intel Xeon Silver 4110

Xeon E5-1660 vs Xeon Silver 4110 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1660 performs better than the Xeon Silver 4110. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Silver 4110 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Silver 4110 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Xeon E5-1660 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1660. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Silver 4110. Also, the Xeon E5-1660 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon Silver 4110 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.

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.