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General information Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2637 v3
Launched Q3 2014 Q4 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 5.4 % 3.7 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 4 50 %
Threads 16 0 % 8 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 135 W 3.6 %
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 × 15 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2637 v3
Overall Score 53637 0 % 46557 13.2 %
Future Proof 43 % 2.3 % 44 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 8277 0 % 4698 43.2 %
Single Thread Score 1986 0.7 % 2000.8 0 %
Encrypting Data 3701.7 MB/s 0 % 1963.1 MB/s 47 %
Compressing Data 192.1 MB/s 0 % 99.4 MB/s 48.3 %
String objects sorting 27534.9 thousand/s 0 % 14472.9 thousand/s 47.4 %
Prime numbers generation 62.1 millions/s 0 % 41.2 millions/s 33.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47369.1 millions/s 0 % 25064.3 millions/s 47.1 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23906.5 millions/s 0 % 12499.2 millions/s 47.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Xeon E5-2637 v3.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2637 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 114.0 FPS 93.0 FPS
High settings 182.5 FPS 148.8 FPS
Medium settings 228.1 FPS 186.0 FPS
Low settings 285.1 FPS 232.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 18.5 %

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 E5-2637 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.0 FPS 132.6 FPS
High settings 232.0 FPS 212.2 FPS
Medium settings 290.1 FPS 265.2 FPS
Low settings 362.6 FPS 331.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 8.6 %
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