Comparison of Intel Core i7-5960X and Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3

Attribute	Intel Core i7-5960X ×	Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	Intel
Series	Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition	Intel Xeon E5
Model	Intel Core i7-5960X	Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	8	8
Frequency (GHz)	3	3
CPU Threads	16	16
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	+	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.5	3.5
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	3.2	3.2
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR4-2133	DDR4-2133
PCIe lanes	40	40
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	-	+
Memory channels	4	4
Technical details
Release date (year)	2014	2014
Technology (Nm)	22	22
Socket	LGA 2011-3	LGA 2011-3
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	vpro vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	20	20
Architecture	Haswell-E	Haswell E
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	140	140
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	15,991	14,656
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,002	916
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	7,843	7,713
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	177	177
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	1,360	1,360
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.89	1.89
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	13.18	13.18
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	3,773	3,773
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	28,928	28,928
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)	254.1	-