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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 47928 0 % 47791 0.3 %
Future Proof 30 % 28.6 % 42 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 5277 0 % 5217 1.1 %
Single Thread Score 1392.4 43.9 % 2482.3 0 %
Encrypting Data 2610.4 MB/s 0 % 2244 MB/s 14 %
Compressing Data 139.8 MB/s 0 % 118.7 MB/s 15 %
String objects sorting 21015 thousand/s 0 % 16560.2 thousand/s 21.2 %
Prime numbers generation 41.7 millions/s 0 % 34.1 millions/s 18.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 33191 millions/s 0 % 29102.1 millions/s 12.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12050.8 millions/s 17.1 % 14541.2 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 97.0 FPS 96.6 FPS
High settings 155.3 FPS 154.6 FPS
Medium settings 194.1 FPS 193.3 FPS
Low settings 242.6 FPS 241.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.4 %

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 135.2 FPS 134.9 FPS
High settings 216.3 FPS 215.9 FPS
Medium settings 270.3 FPS 269.9 FPS
Low settings 337.9 FPS 337.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.2 %
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