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General information Xeon E5-1660 A8-5500
Launched Q3 2012 Q2 2012
Used in Server Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA2011 FM2
Series Name Intel Xeon E5 AMD A8
Core Family Name Sandy Bridge-EP Trinity
Clock 3.3 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 3 %
Turbo Clock 3.9 GHz 0 % 3.7 GHz 5.1 %
Cores 6 0 % 4 33.3 %
Threads 12 0 % 4 66.7 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 0 % 65 W 50 %
Lithography 32 nm 0 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
4 × 16 kB Data
2 × 64 kB Instruction
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
2 × 2 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Xeon E5-1660 A8-5500
Overall Score 48281 0 % 35997 25.4 %
Future Proof 31 % 0 % 30 % 3.2 %
Benchmark Score 5434 0 % 1679 69.1 %
Single Thread Score 1821.2 0 % 1333.3 26.8 %
Encrypting Data 2579.2 MB/s 32.6 % 3826.4 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 139.1 MB/s 0 % 42.8 MB/s 69.2 %
String objects sorting 20989.8 thousand/s 0 % 5456.3 thousand/s 74 %
Prime numbers generation 42.3 millions/s 0 % 11 millions/s 74 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 33033.6 millions/s 0 % 17615.5 millions/s 46.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12050.8 millions/s 0 % 4716.8 millions/s 60.9 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E5-1660, A8-5500.

Average frames per second Xeon E5-1660 A8-5500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 98.1 FPS 61.6 FPS
High settings 157.0 FPS 98.6 FPS
Medium settings 196.2 FPS 123.3 FPS
Low settings 245.2 FPS 154.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 37.2 %

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 A8-5500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 135.7 FPS 114.0 FPS
High settings 217.1 FPS 182.4 FPS
Medium settings 271.3 FPS 228.0 FPS
Low settings 339.2 FPS 285.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 16 %
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