Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 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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$ 194.09

$ 189.95

$ 4.14 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4924 points

23% slightly better overall score

3996 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4566 points

8% slightly better gaming score

4213 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5084 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

3900 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5215 points

35% slightly better heavy workload score

3849 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

112.68 points

129.03 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5202 points

5920 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

855 points

975 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5366 points

5959 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

899 points

985 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

2.6 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

3.3 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

Identical

105 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB

Identical

768 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

355th of 1,089

436th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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 E5-2650 v3 vs Xeon E5-2660 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2660 v3 is faster than the Xeon E5-2650 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2650 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650 v3. Also, the Xeon E5-2660 v3 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.

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 E5-2650 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.