Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E5 v2 Intel Xeon E5 v2
• Family
  Intel Xeon E5 Intel Xeon E5
• Generation
  4 4
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Successor
  Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 -

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.7 GHz 2.1 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  6 6
• CPU Threads
  12 12
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4 GHz 2.6 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  3.8 GHz 2.3 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 and Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  4 4
• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 DDR3-1600
• PCIe lanes
  40 40
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2 and Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  130 W 80 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2 and Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge EP Ivy Bridge EP
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L3-Cache
  12 MB 15 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q3/2013
• Socket
  LGA 2011 LGA 2011
• Technology
  22 nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d