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General information Core i7-5960X Core i7-6800K
Launched Q3 2014 Q2 2016
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 LGA2011-v3
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Haswell-E Broadwell-E
Clock 3 GHz 11.8 % 3.4 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 7.9 % 3.8 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 6 25 %
Threads 16 0 % 12 25 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 140 W 0 %
Lithography 22 nm 0 % 14 nm 36.4 %
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 × 15 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-5960X Core i7-6800K
Overall Score 53636 0 % 51360 4.2 %
Future Proof 43 % 18.9 % 53 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 8276 0 % 6959 15.9 %
Single Thread Score 1997.9 11.7 % 2262.9 0 %
Encrypting Data 3690.5 MB/s 0 % 2927.6 MB/s 20.7 %
Compressing Data 193.4 MB/s 0 % 158.6 MB/s 18 %
String objects sorting 27813 thousand/s 0 % 20766.2 thousand/s 25.3 %
Prime numbers generation 61.9 millions/s 0 % 47.5 millions/s 23.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47940.9 millions/s 0 % 37575.4 millions/s 21.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23906.5 millions/s 1.2 % 24197.6 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Core i7-6800K.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Core i7-6800K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 114.0 FPS 107.3 FPS
High settings 182.5 FPS 171.6 FPS
Medium settings 228.1 FPS 214.5 FPS
Low settings 285.1 FPS 268.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 5.9 %

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 Core i7-6800K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.2 FPS 141.2 FPS
High settings 232.3 FPS 225.9 FPS
Medium settings 290.3 FPS 282.3 FPS
Low settings 362.9 FPS 352.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 2.8 %
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