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General information Xeon E5-2690 v3 Core2 Quad Q8300
Launched Q3 2014 Q1 2009
Used in Server Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 LGA775
Series Name Intel Xeon E5 Intel Core 2 Quad
Core Family Name Haswell-EP Yorkfield
Clock 2.6 GHz 0 % 2.5 GHz 3.8 %
Cores 12 0 % 4 66.7 %
Threads 24 0 % 4 83.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 135 W 0 % 95 W 29.6 %
Lithography 22 nm 51.1 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 12 × 32 kB Instruction
12 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 12 × 256 kB
2 × 2 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Xeon E5-2690 v3 Core2 Quad Q8300
Overall Score 57189 0 % 33239 41.9 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 11 % 74.4 %
Benchmark Score 10697 0 % 1221 88.6 %
Single Thread Score 1938.7 0 % 1058.9 45.4 %
Encrypting Data 5029.5 MB/s 0 % 2803.6 MB/s 44.3 %
Compressing Data 271.5 MB/s 0 % 40.5 MB/s 85.1 %
String objects sorting 38222.8 thousand/s 0 % 5590.3 thousand/s 85.4 %
Prime numbers generation 74.8 millions/s 0 % 7 millions/s 90.6 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 66503.2 millions/s 0 % 9144.5 millions/s 86.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 33823.1 millions/s 0 % 5233 millions/s 84.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E5-2690 v3, Core2 Quad Q8300.

Average frames per second Xeon E5-2690 v3 Core2 Quad Q8300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 124.6 FPS 53.5 FPS
High settings 199.3 FPS 85.6 FPS
Medium settings 249.1 FPS 107.0 FPS
Low settings 311.4 FPS 133.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 57 %

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 E5-2690 v3 Core2 Quad Q8300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 151.4 FPS 109.2 FPS
High settings 242.2 FPS 174.7 FPS
Medium settings 302.8 FPS 218.4 FPS
Low settings 378.4 FPS 273.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 27.9 %
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