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General information Xeon E5-2660 Core i7-4790K
Launched Q2 2012 Q2 2014
Used in Server Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011 LGA1150
Series Name Intel Xeon E5 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Sandy Bridge-EP Haswell Refresh
Clock 2.2 GHz 45 % 4 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3 GHz 31.8 % 4.4 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 4 50 %
Threads 16 0 % 8 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 W 0 % 88 W 7.4 %
Lithography 32 nm 0 % 22 nm 31.3 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Xeon E5-2660 Core i7-4790K
Overall Score 47886 0 % 47791 0.2 %
Future Proof 30 % 28.6 % 42 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 5258 0 % 5217 0.8 %
Single Thread Score 1405 43.3 % 2479.8 0 %
Encrypting Data 2605.2 MB/s 0 % 2255.3 MB/s 13.4 %
Compressing Data 138.4 MB/s 0 % 119.7 MB/s 13.5 %
String objects sorting 20781.3 thousand/s 0 % 16642.2 thousand/s 19.9 %
Prime numbers generation 40.8 millions/s 0 % 34.2 millions/s 16.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 33023 millions/s 0 % 29277.4 millions/s 11.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12174.3 millions/s 17.4 % 14731.4 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E5-2660, Core i7-4790K.

Average frames per second Xeon E5-2660 Core i7-4790K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 96.9 FPS 96.6 FPS
High settings 155.1 FPS 154.6 FPS
Medium settings 193.8 FPS 193.3 FPS
Low settings 242.3 FPS 241.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.3 %

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 E5-2660 Core i7-4790K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 134.9 FPS 134.8 FPS
High settings 215.9 FPS 215.7 FPS
Medium settings 269.9 FPS 269.6 FPS
Low settings 337.3 FPS 337.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.1 %
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