Intel Xeon E5-2660 vs Intel Xeon X5570

Xeon E5-2660 vs Xeon X5570 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2660 beats the Xeon X5570 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5570 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2660 has significantly more cores than the Xeon X5570. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon X5570. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5570. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon X5570 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660. Also, the Xeon X5570 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.