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General information Core i7-5960X Xeon E3-1275 v6
Launched Q3 2014 Q2 2017
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 FCLGA1151
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Xeon E3
Core Family Name Haswell-E Kaby Lake-S
Clock 3 GHz 21.1 % 3.8 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 16.7 % 4.2 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 4 50 %
Threads 16 0 % 8 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 73 W 47.9 %
Maximum supported RAM 64 GB 0 % 64 GB 0 %
Lithography 22 nm 0 % 14 nm 36.4 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-5960X Xeon E3-1275 v6
Overall Score 53636 0 % 49522 7.7 %
Future Proof 43 % 27.1 % 59 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 8276 0 % 6015 27.3 %
Single Thread Score 1976.1 23.2 % 2573.9 0 %
Encrypting Data 3724 MB/s 0 % 3511.5 MB/s 5.7 %
Compressing Data 192.4 MB/s 0 % 122.5 MB/s 36.4 %
String objects sorting 27729.6 thousand/s 0 % 15942 thousand/s 42.5 %
Prime numbers generation 61.9 millions/s 0 % 32.2 millions/s 48 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47988.6 millions/s 0 % 29063 millions/s 39.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23787.3 millions/s 0 % 17749.7 millions/s 25.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Xeon E3-1275 v6.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Xeon E3-1275 v6
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 114.0 FPS 101.8 FPS
High settings 182.5 FPS 162.8 FPS
Medium settings 228.1 FPS 203.5 FPS
Low settings 285.1 FPS 254.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 10.8 %

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 E3-1275 v6
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.0 FPS 137.8 FPS
High settings 232.0 FPS 220.4 FPS
Medium settings 290.0 FPS 275.5 FPS
Low settings 362.6 FPS 344.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 5 %
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