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General information Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-1620 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 14.3 % 3.5 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 2.8 % 3.6 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 4 50 %
Threads 16 0 % 8 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 140 W 0 %
Lithography 22 nm 0 % 22 nm 0 %
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 × 10 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-1620 v3
Overall Score 53636 0 % 46110 14 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 43 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 8276 0 % 4520 45.4 %
Single Thread Score 1997.9 0 % 1994.9 0.2 %
Encrypting Data 3690.5 MB/s 0 % 1936.8 MB/s 47.5 %
Compressing Data 193.4 MB/s 0 % 101.1 MB/s 47.7 %
String objects sorting 27813 thousand/s 0 % 14278.3 thousand/s 48.7 %
Prime numbers generation 61.9 millions/s 0 % 32.9 millions/s 46.8 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47940.9 millions/s 0 % 24582.8 millions/s 48.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23906.5 millions/s 0 % 12354.4 millions/s 48.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Xeon E5-1620 v3.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-1620 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 114.0 FPS 91.7 FPS
High settings 182.5 FPS 146.6 FPS
Medium settings 228.1 FPS 183.3 FPS
Low settings 285.1 FPS 229.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 19.6 %

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 Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-1620 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.2 FPS 131.9 FPS
High settings 232.3 FPS 211.0 FPS
Medium settings 290.3 FPS 263.8 FPS
Low settings 362.9 FPS 329.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 9.2 %
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