Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 vs Intel Xeon X5647

Xeon E5-2660 v2 vs Xeon X5647 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2660 v2 beats the Xeon X5647 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon X5647 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2660 v2 has significantly more cores than the Xeon X5647. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 v2 has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon X5647. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5647. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon X5647 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v2. Also, the Xeon X5647 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2660 v2 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5647 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.