Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Xeon E5-2630 v3 vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 beats the Xeon E5-2630 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2630 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2630 v3 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2630 v3. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2630 v3.

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 E5-2630 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.