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General information Xeon E5-2698 v4 Core i7-5960X
Launched Q2 2016 Q3 2014
Used in Server Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2011-3 LGA2011-v3
Series Name Intel Xeon E5 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Broadwell-EP Haswell-E
Clock 2.2 GHz 26.7 % 3 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 2.8 %
Cores 20 0 % 8 60 %
Threads 40 0 % 16 60 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 135 W 3.6 % 140 W 0 %
Maximum supported RAM 1536 GB 0 % 64 GB 95.8 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 20 × 32 kB Instruction
20 × 32 kB Data
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 20 × 256 kB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 50 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Xeon E5-2698 v4 Core i7-5960X
Overall Score 62510 0 % 53568 14.3 %
Future Proof 53 % 0 % 43 % 18.9 %
Benchmark Score 15269 0 % 8234 46.1 %
Single Thread Score 2196.9 0 % 1989 9.5 %
Encrypting Data 7843.8 MB/s 0 % 3674.8 MB/s 53.1 %
Compressing Data 411.3 MB/s 0 % 192.8 MB/s 53.1 %
String objects sorting 52126.7 thousand/s 0 % 27637 thousand/s 47 %
Prime numbers generation 105.8 millions/s 0 % 61.1 millions/s 42.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 96289 millions/s 0 % 47877.2 millions/s 50.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 62087.2 millions/s 0 % 24013.6 millions/s 61.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E5-2698 v4, Core i7-5960X.

Average frames per second Xeon E5-2698 v4 Core i7-5960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 140.4 FPS 113.8 FPS
High settings 224.6 FPS 182.1 FPS
Medium settings 280.8 FPS 227.7 FPS
Low settings 351.0 FPS 284.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 18.9 %

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 Xeon E5-2698 v4 Core i7-5960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 160.7 FPS 144.9 FPS
High settings 257.1 FPS 231.8 FPS
Medium settings 321.3 FPS 289.8 FPS
Low settings 401.7 FPS 362.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 9.8 %
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