Intel Xeon E5-1660 vs Intel Xeon X5680

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 X5680

Price

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$ 614.29

$ 147.98

$ 466.31 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3673 points

4570 points

24% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4854 points

7% slightly better gaming score

4503 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3294 points

4578 points

38% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3198 points

4568 points

42% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

65.07 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

56.43 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4536 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2584 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

761 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

535 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3040 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2476 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

618 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

532 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

3.33 GHz

0.79% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

Identical

130 W

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

383rd 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 X5680 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5680 is faster than the Xeon E5-1660. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1660 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-1660. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1660 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.

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.