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General information Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2640 v3
Launched Q3 2014 Q3 2014
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 LGA2011-v3
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Xeon E5
Core Family Name Haswell-E Haswell-EP
Clock 3 GHz 0 % 2.6 GHz 13.3 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 3.4 GHz 2.9 %
Cores 8 0 % 8 0 %
Threads 16 0 % 16 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 90 W 35.7 %
Lithography 22 nm 0 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2640 v3
Overall Score 53637 0 % 51801 3.4 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 43 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 8277 0 % 7200 13 %
Single Thread Score 1986 0 % 1876.6 5.5 %
Encrypting Data 3701.7 MB/s 0 % 3239.9 MB/s 12.5 %
Compressing Data 192.1 MB/s 0 % 174.4 MB/s 9.2 %
String objects sorting 27534.9 thousand/s 0 % 24615.8 thousand/s 10.6 %
Prime numbers generation 62.1 millions/s 0 % 48.8 millions/s 21.5 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47369.1 millions/s 0 % 42383.5 millions/s 10.5 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23906.5 millions/s 0 % 21106.8 millions/s 11.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Xeon E5-2640 v3.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2640 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 114.0 FPS 108.5 FPS
High settings 182.5 FPS 173.6 FPS
Medium settings 228.1 FPS 217.0 FPS
Low settings 285.1 FPS 271.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 4.8 %

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 Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2640 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.0 FPS 141.8 FPS
High settings 232.0 FPS 226.9 FPS
Medium settings 290.1 FPS 283.6 FPS
Low settings 362.6 FPS 354.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 2.2 %
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