| Attribute |
 Intel Xeon Silver 4116 × |  Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 × |
| General Information | | |
| Brand | Intel | Intel |
| Series | Intel Xeon Silver | Intel Xeon E5 |
| Model | Intel Xeon Silver 4116 | Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 |
| CPU Cores and Base Frequency | | |
| CPU Cores | 12 | 10 |
| Frequency (GHz) | 2.1 | 2.2 |
| CPU Threads | 24 | 20 |
| Core architecture | normal | normal |
| Hyperthreading | + | + |
| Overclocking | - | - |
| Turbo (1 Core) (GHz) | 3 | 3 |
| Turbo (10 Cores) (GHz) | - | 2.6 |
| Turbo (12 Cores) (GHz) | 2.6 | - |
| 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 | DDR4-2400 | DDR3-1600 |
| PCIe lanes | 48 | 40 |
| PCIe version | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| ECC | + | + |
| Memory channels | 6 | 4 |
| Technical details | | |
| Release date (year) | 2017 | 2013 |
| Technology (Nm) | 14 | 22 |
| Socket | LGA 3647 | LGA 2011 |
| Virtualization | | |
| L3-Cache (MB) | 16 | 20 |
| Architecture | Skylake SP | Ivy Bridge EP |
| Instruction set (ISA) | x86-64 (64 bit) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| Thermal Management | | |
| TDP (PL1) (W) | 85 | 95 |
| Benchmarks | | |
| Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark | 15,510 | 13,142 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 670 | 578 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 5,884 | 5,441 |
| Cinebench R15 (Single-Core) | 131 | 113 |
| Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core) | 1,722 | 916 |
| Cinebench R20 (Single-Core) | 284 | - |
| Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core) | 3,520 | 2,389 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 1.54 | 0.93 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 18.93 | 11.26 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core) | 3,356 | 2,275 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 32,349 | 28,770 |
| Blender 2.81 (bmw27) | - | 336.4 |