Intel Xeon E5-2660 vs Intel Xeon E5-2665

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

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Intel Xeon E5-2665

Price

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$ 149.95

$ 106.93

$ 43.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3233 points

5548 points

71% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3840 points

4569 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3029 points

5916 points

95% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2968 points

6106 points

105% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

60.42 points

73.09 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4080 points

4404 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

538 points

573 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2763 points

2832 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

457 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

452 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz

2.4 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

3.1 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

21% slightly lower TDP

115 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

384 GiB

Identical

384 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

510th of 1,092

292nd of 1,092

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2660 vs Xeon E5-2665 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2660 beats the Xeon E5-2665 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2665 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2665 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660. Also, the Xeon E5-2665 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2660 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2665 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.