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General information Xeon E5-2640 v3 Core2 Duo E8500
Launched Q3 2014 Q4 2008
Used in Server Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 LGA775
Series Name Intel Xeon E5 Intel Core 2 Duo
Core Family Name Haswell-EP Wolfdale
Clock 2.6 GHz 18.8 % 3.2 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 2 75 %
Threads 16 0 % 2 87.5 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 90 W 0 % 65 W 27.8 %
Lithography 22 nm 51.1 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Xeon E5-2640 v3 Core2 Duo E8500
Overall Score 51786 0 % 30043 42 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 10 % 76.7 %
Benchmark Score 7192 0 % 815 88.7 %
Single Thread Score 1860.9 0 % 1329.2 28.6 %
Encrypting Data 3298.9 MB/s 0 % 1856.2 MB/s 43.7 %
Compressing Data 174.1 MB/s 0 % 25.8 MB/s 85.2 %
String objects sorting 24333.6 thousand/s 0 % 3640.7 thousand/s 85 %
Prime numbers generation 48.8 millions/s 0 % 10 millions/s 79.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 42547.9 millions/s 0 % 5394.2 millions/s 87.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 21380.2 millions/s 0 % 3264.5 millions/s 84.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E5-2640 v3, Core2 Duo E8500.

Average frames per second Xeon E5-2640 v3 Core2 Duo E8500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 108.5 FPS 44.0 FPS
High settings 173.6 FPS 70.4 FPS
Medium settings 217.0 FPS 88.0 FPS
Low settings 271.2 FPS 110.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 59.5 %

Grand Theft Auto V Frames per second

Comparison of FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) in game 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto V Xeon E5-2640 v3 Core2 Duo E8500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 141.6 FPS 103.2 FPS
High settings 226.6 FPS 165.1 FPS
Medium settings 283.2 FPS 206.4 FPS
Low settings 354.0 FPS 258.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 27.1 %
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