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General information Xeon E5-2690 Core i7-4790K
Launched Q1 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 2.9 GHz 27.5 % 4 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.8 GHz 13.6 % 4.4 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 4 50 %
Threads 16 0 % 8 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 135 W 0 % 88 W 34.8 %
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 E5-2690 Core i7-4790K
Overall Score 50099 0 % 47789 4.6 %
Future Proof 28 % 33.3 % 42 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 6300 0 % 5215 17.2 %
Single Thread Score 1678 32.2 % 2474.9 0 %
Encrypting Data 3056.1 MB/s 0 % 2237.2 MB/s 26.8 %
Compressing Data 166.5 MB/s 0 % 118.7 MB/s 28.7 %
String objects sorting 25010.3 thousand/s 0 % 16453.6 thousand/s 34.2 %
Prime numbers generation 49.3 millions/s 0 % 34.2 millions/s 30.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 39568.5 millions/s 0 % 29154.6 millions/s 26.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 14607.3 millions/s 0.2 % 14641.6 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E5-2690, Core i7-4790K.

Average frames per second Xeon E5-2690 Core i7-4790K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 103.5 FPS 96.6 FPS
High settings 165.6 FPS 154.6 FPS
Medium settings 207.0 FPS 193.2 FPS
Low settings 258.7 FPS 241.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 6.6 %

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 E5-2690 Core i7-4790K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 138.7 FPS 134.7 FPS
High settings 221.9 FPS 215.5 FPS
Medium settings 277.4 FPS 269.4 FPS
Low settings 346.8 FPS 336.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 2.9 %
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