Intel Xeon E5-2660 vs Intel Xeon X5670

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon X5670

Price

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$ 149.95

$ 88.88

$ 61.07 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3233 points

3% slightly better overall score

3118 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3840 points

4250 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3029 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

2751 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2968 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

2664 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

60.42 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

51.81 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4080 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2417 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

538 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2763 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2310 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

457 points

491 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz

2.93 GHz

33% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

3.33 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

33% slightly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

384 GiB

33% slightly more supported memory

288 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

507th of 1,089

522nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2010 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 X5670 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2660 performs better than the Xeon X5670. Despite this, the Xeon X5670 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon X5670 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5670. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5670 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660. Also, the Xeon X5670 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.

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