Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Xeon E5-2660 v2 vs Xeon E5-2689 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2689 is faster than the Xeon E5-2660 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2660 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2689 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2689. A Xeon E5-2660 v2 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2689 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 E5-2660 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.