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General information Xeon E5-1660 v3 Core2 Quad Q8300
Launched Q4 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 3 GHz 0 % 2.5 GHz 16.7 %
Cores 8 0 % 4 50 %
Threads 16 0 % 4 75 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 95 W 32.1 %
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
2 × 2 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Xeon E5-1660 v3 Core2 Quad Q8300
Overall Score 53302 0 % 33239 37.6 %
Future Proof 44 % 0 % 11 % 75 %
Benchmark Score 8072 0 % 1221 84.9 %
Single Thread Score 1978.9 0 % 1053.6 46.8 %
Encrypting Data 3706.3 MB/s 0 % 2809.2 MB/s 24.2 %
Compressing Data 189.7 MB/s 0 % 41 MB/s 78.4 %
String objects sorting 27505.2 thousand/s 0 % 5579.1 thousand/s 79.7 %
Prime numbers generation 58.5 millions/s 0 % 7 millions/s 88 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 45865 millions/s 0 % 9126.4 millions/s 80.1 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 22876.2 millions/s 0 % 5196.6 millions/s 77.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E5-1660 v3, Core2 Quad Q8300.

Average frames per second Xeon E5-1660 v3 Core2 Quad Q8300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 113.0 FPS 53.5 FPS
High settings 180.7 FPS 85.6 FPS
Medium settings 225.9 FPS 107.0 FPS
Low settings 282.4 FPS 133.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 52.6 %

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 E5-1660 v3 Core2 Quad Q8300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.2 FPS 109.0 FPS
High settings 230.7 FPS 174.4 FPS
Medium settings 288.4 FPS 218.0 FPS
Low settings 360.5 FPS 272.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 24.4 %
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