Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4 vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 10 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3

Price

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$ 39.90

$ 150.05 significantly less expensive

$ 189.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4409 points

10% slightly better overall score

3996 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5193 points

23% slightly better gaming score

4213 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4156 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

3900 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4086 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

3849 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

127.64 points

129.03 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5966 points

0.78% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

5920 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1033 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

975 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5632 points

5959 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1047 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

985 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

2.4 GHz

2.6 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

90 W

16% slightly lower TDP

105 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

399th of 1,089

436th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2640 v4 vs Xeon E5-2660 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2660 v3 is faster than the Xeon E5-2640 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 v4 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2640 v4 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2640 v4 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.