Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4

Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Xeon E5-2660 v4 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 is faster than the Xeon E5-2660 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v4 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 E5-2696 v2 that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2696 v2.

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 E5-2696 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.