Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E5 v3 Intel Xeon E5 v4
• Family
  Intel Xeon E5 Intel Xeon E5
• Generation
  5 6
• Predecessor
  - Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

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

• Base Frequency
  3.2 GHz 3.2 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  8 8
• CPU Threads
  16 16
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.8 GHz 3.8 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  3.5 GHz No turbo

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 E5-1660 v4 and Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  - 1532 GB
• Memory channels
  4 4
• Memory type
  DDR4-2133 DDR4-1866DDR4-2133DDR4-2400
• PCIe lanes
  40 40
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 and Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 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)
  140 W 140 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 and Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Haswell E Broadwell E
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  20 MB 20 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2014 Q2/2016
• Socket
  LGA 2011-3 LGA 2011-3
• Technology
  22 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d