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General information Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2643 v3
Launched Q3 2014 Q1 2015
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 11.8 % 3.4 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 5.4 % 3.7 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 6 25 %
Threads 16 0 % 12 25 %
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
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2643 v3
Overall Score 53636 0 % 51001 4.9 %
Future Proof 43 % 6.5 % 46 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 8276 0 % 6766 18.2 %
Single Thread Score 1997.9 3.6 % 2072.5 0 %
Encrypting Data 3690.5 MB/s 0 % 2950.1 MB/s 20.1 %
Compressing Data 193.4 MB/s 0 % 153.4 MB/s 20.7 %
String objects sorting 27813 thousand/s 0 % 22351.3 thousand/s 19.6 %
Prime numbers generation 61.9 millions/s 0 % 53.7 millions/s 13.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47940.9 millions/s 0 % 37777.6 millions/s 21.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23906.5 millions/s 0 % 18689.2 millions/s 21.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Xeon E5-2643 v3.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2643 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 114.0 FPS 106.2 FPS
High settings 182.5 FPS 169.9 FPS
Medium settings 228.1 FPS 212.4 FPS
Low settings 285.1 FPS 265.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 6.9 %

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 E5-2643 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.2 FPS 140.5 FPS
High settings 232.3 FPS 224.8 FPS
Medium settings 290.3 FPS 281.0 FPS
Low settings 362.9 FPS 351.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 3.2 %
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