Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 core CPU vs Intel 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2689

Price

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$ 189.95

$ 109.95

$ 80.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3996 points

4209 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4213 points

4875 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3900 points

3976 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

3900 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

129.03 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

78.82 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

9% slightly lower TDP

115 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

436th of 1,089

418th 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 E5-2660 v3 vs Xeon E5-2689 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2689 performs better than the Xeon E5-2660 v3. 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 E5-2689 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2689. A Xeon E5-2660 v3 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.