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General information Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2643 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 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 %
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
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
6 × 236 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2643 v4
Overall Score 53636 0 % 51787 3.4 %
Future Proof 43 % 18.9 % 53 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 8276 0 % 7193 13.1 %
Single Thread Score 1976.1 10.5 % 2208.9 0 %
Encrypting Data 3724 MB/s 0 % 3046.1 MB/s 18.2 %
Compressing Data 192.4 MB/s 0 % 161.9 MB/s 15.8 %
String objects sorting 27729.6 thousand/s 0 % 21165.3 thousand/s 23.7 %
Prime numbers generation 61.9 millions/s 0 % 57.3 millions/s 7.5 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47988.6 millions/s 0 % 37794.6 millions/s 21.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23787.3 millions/s 3.2 % 24567.8 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 E5-2643 v4.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2643 v4
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 114.0 FPS 108.5 FPS
High settings 182.5 FPS 173.6 FPS
Medium settings 228.1 FPS 217.0 FPS
Low settings 285.1 FPS 271.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 4.9 %

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 v4
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.0 FPS 141.8 FPS
High settings 232.0 FPS 226.8 FPS
Medium settings 290.0 FPS 283.5 FPS
Low settings 362.6 FPS 354.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 2.2 %
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