Intel Xeon E5-2660 vs Intel Xeon W-2123

Xeon E5-2660 vs Xeon W-2123 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2660 beats the Xeon W-2123 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon W-2123 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2660 has significantly more cores than the Xeon W-2123. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon W-2123. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-2123. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon W-2123 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660. Also, the Xeon W-2123 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2660 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W-2123 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.