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General information Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2630 v4
Launched Q3 2014 Q2 2016
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 FCLGA2011-3
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Xeon E5
Core Family Name Haswell-E Broadwell-EP
Clock 3 GHz 0 % 2.2 GHz 26.7 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 3.1 GHz 11.4 %
Cores 8 20 % 10 0 %
Threads 16 20 % 20 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 85 W 39.3 %
Maximum supported RAM 64 GB 95.8 % 1536 GB 0 %
Lithography 22 nm 0 % 14 nm 36.4 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
10 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 25 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2630 v4
Overall Score 53590 0 % 52400 2.2 %
Future Proof 43 % 18.9 % 53 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 8248 0 % 7539 8.6 %
Single Thread Score 2002.9 0 % 1741.3 13.1 %
Encrypting Data 3683.8 MB/s 0 % 3402.8 MB/s 7.6 %
Compressing Data 191.4 MB/s 0 % 181 MB/s 5.4 %
String objects sorting 27964.4 thousand/s 0 % 23571.6 thousand/s 15.7 %
Prime numbers generation 62.2 millions/s 0 % 53.7 millions/s 13.8 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47213.2 millions/s 0 % 42185.3 millions/s 10.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23752.5 millions/s 13.2 % 27363.6 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Xeon E5-2630 v4.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2630 v4
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 113.9 FPS 110.0 FPS
High settings 182.2 FPS 176.0 FPS
Medium settings 227.8 FPS 220.0 FPS
Low settings 284.7 FPS 275.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 3.4 %

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 E5-2630 v4
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.9 FPS 142.7 FPS
High settings 231.9 FPS 228.3 FPS
Medium settings 289.9 FPS 285.4 FPS
Low settings 362.3 FPS 356.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 1.5 %
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