Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 Benchmark and Specs

Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 Processor benchmark and specs - 3 GHz 10 core Intel CPU rating. Is the Xeon E5-2666 v3 good for gaming?

Benchmark Score

4,823
Very Good score from 1 sample
High uncertainty
Performance
Very Good
Ranking
363rd of 1,089
Popularity
185th of 1,089
Samples
1 benchmarks

CPU benchmarks

Here are the performance results of this CPU in both the hardwareDB Benchmark and other benchmark utilities. Synthetic tests are an estimation of real-world performance using consistent and repeatable benchmarks.

Overall

Very Good

4,823

Gaming

Very Good

5,321

Multitasking

Very Good

4,658

Heavy Workloads

Very Good

4,614

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Alternative benchmarks

Here are some benchmark results using alternative testing software

3DMark Physics

3DMark Physics

Physics simulation benchmark

4,806
Blender

Blender

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

152

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CPU Comparison

The Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 compared against popular alternatives. Compare against more CPUs with our CPU Comparison Tool.

Intel Core i5-12400
7,038 points
Intel Xeon E5-2667 v4
4,938 points
Intel Core i5-10400F
4,847 points
Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3
4,823 points
Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3
4,747 points
Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4
3,728 points
Intel Core i7-6700K
3,497 points

Specifications

Clock Speed 2.9 GHz
Cores 10
Threads 20
L2 Cache 2.5 MiB
L3 Cache 25 MiB

Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

The Xeon E5-2666 v3 is a 10 core CPU from Intel. This chip has a very good overall score with 4823 points in our CPU benchmark. Our gaming benchmark shows that this CPU is a very good processor for gaming, with a score of 5321 points. As for multitasking and heavy workloads, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 scores 4658 points and 4614 points respectively. Indeed, this is a very good rating for very heavy workloads.

The Xeon E5-2666 v3 has 10 cores and 20 threads. This CPU makes use of simultaneous multithreading technology to improve performance on parallel tasks. Each physical CPU core is divided into multiple logical processors. This Intel CPU has a clock speed of 2.9 GHz.

In terms of cache, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has 2 MiB of level 2 cache and 25 MiB of level 3 cache. This is a fast memory located close to the processor, which stores copies of frequently used data from main memory.

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