Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4

Compare Intel 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4834 points

5000 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4801 points

4860 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4827 points

5053 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4804 points

5066 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.02 points

201.57 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16% slightly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

105 W

14% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

362nd of 1,089

348th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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 E5-2676 v3 vs Xeon E5-2660 v4 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 is faster than the Xeon E5-2676 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2676 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2676 v3 that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2676 v3. The Xeon E5-2660 v4 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2676 v3 thanks to a 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 E5-2676 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.