Comparison of Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2 and Intel Xeon Gold 5122

Attribute	Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2 ×	Intel Xeon Gold 5122 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	Intel
Series	Intel Xeon E5	Intel Xeon Gold
Model	Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2	Intel Xeon Gold 5122
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	6	4
Frequency (GHz)	3.7	3.6
CPU Threads	12	8
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4	3.7
Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz)	-	3.7
Turbo (6 Cores) (GHz)	3.8	-
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	DDR3-1866	DDR4-2666
PCIe lanes	40	48
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	+	+
Memory channels	4	6
Technical details
Release date (year)	2013	2017
Technology (Nm)	22	14
Socket	LGA 2011	LGA 3647
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	vpro vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	12	17
Architecture	Ivy Bridge EP	Skylake SP
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	130	105
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	13,919	10,896
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	811	906
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	5,019	3,891
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	151	162
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	1,092	827
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.82	1.91
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	11.71	9.09
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	3,295	4,167
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	18,720	15,538