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General information Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2650L v3
Launched Q3 2014 Q3 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 0 % 1.8 GHz 40 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 2.5 GHz 28.6 %
Cores 8 33.3 % 12 0 %
Threads 16 33.3 % 24 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 65 W 53.6 %
Lithography 22 nm 0 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
12 × 32 kB Instruction
12 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
12 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 30 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2650L v3
Overall Score 53636 0 % 52644 1.8 %
Future Proof 43 % 12.2 % 49 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 8276 0 % 7681 7.2 %
Single Thread Score 1997.9 0 % 1407.4 29.6 %
Encrypting Data 3690.5 MB/s 3 % 3804.8 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 193.4 MB/s 0 % 191.7 MB/s 0.9 %
String objects sorting 27813 thousand/s 0 % 26818.2 thousand/s 3.6 %
Prime numbers generation 61.9 millions/s 0 % 56.9 millions/s 8 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47940.9 millions/s 0 % 46082.5 millions/s 3.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23906.5 millions/s 0 % 23242.2 millions/s 2.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Xeon E5-2650L v3.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2650L v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 114.0 FPS 111.1 FPS
High settings 182.5 FPS 177.7 FPS
Medium settings 228.1 FPS 222.1 FPS
Low settings 285.1 FPS 277.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 2.6 %

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 E5-2650L v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.2 FPS 143.4 FPS
High settings 232.3 FPS 229.5 FPS
Medium settings 290.3 FPS 286.9 FPS
Low settings 362.9 FPS 358.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 1.2 %
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