Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 core CPU vs Intel 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3996 points

5240 points

31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4213 points

5199 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3900 points

5238 points

34% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

5217 points

35% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

129.03 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

103.15 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5920 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4163 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

975 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

499 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5959 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4084 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

985 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

534 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

20% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20% slightly more threads

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

436th of 1,089

320th 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 E5-2696 v2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 is faster than the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2660 v3.

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 E5-2660 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.