Intel Xeon W3580 vs Intel Xeon E5-1603

Xeon W3580 vs Xeon E5-1603 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon W3580 is faster than the Xeon E5-1603. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1603 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon W3580 has more threads. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 W3580 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.