Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Xeon E5-2687W comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2687W beats the Xeon E5-2660 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2687W that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2687W. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2687W has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Also, the Xeon E5-2687W has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2660 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W CPU because of its much 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 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.