Intel Xeon E5-1660 vs Intel Xeon X5670

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

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Intel Xeon X5670

Price

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$ 614.29

$ 88.88

$ 525.41 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3673 points

17% slightly better overall score

3118 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4854 points

14% slightly better gaming score

4250 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3294 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

2751 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3198 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

2664 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

65.07 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

51.81 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4536 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2417 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

761 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3040 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2310 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

618 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

491 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

2.93 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

33% slightly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

256 GiB

288 GiB

12% slightly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

465th of 1,089

522nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2010 February

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 X5670 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5670 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1660 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X5670. Also, the Xeon E5-1660 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon X5670 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.

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.