Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 is faster than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has 12 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Xeon E5-2666 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v3.

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 E5-2680 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.