Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4

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$ 2025.40

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$ 6964.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5014 points

0.28% slightly better overall score

5000 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5009 points

3% slightly better gaming score

4860 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5003 points

5053 points

1.00% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4989 points

5066 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

145.84 points

201.57 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5958 points

6391 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points

958 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

2.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz

3.2 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

105 W

14% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

346th of 1,089

348th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2670 v3 vs Xeon E5-2660 v4 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 is faster than the Xeon E5-2670 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2670 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2670 v3. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has 14 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Xeon E5-2670 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2670 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2670 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2660 v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2660 v4 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2670 v3 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. 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 E5-2670 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.