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General information Core i7-5960X Xeon E3-1225 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 9.1 % 3.3 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 5.4 % 3.7 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 4 50 %
Threads 16 0 % 4 75 %
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 No
Performance Core i7-5960X Xeon E3-1225 v6
Overall Score 53568 0 % 43756 18.3 %
Future Proof 43 % 27.1 % 59 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 8234 0 % 3666 55.5 %
Single Thread Score 1981 0.9 % 1999.9 0 %
Encrypting Data 3708.1 MB/s 0 % 1569 MB/s 57.7 %
Compressing Data 192.8 MB/s 0 % 73.8 MB/s 61.7 %
String objects sorting 27886.7 thousand/s 0 % 9475.9 thousand/s 66 %
Prime numbers generation 61 millions/s 0 % 35.3 millions/s 42.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47829.6 millions/s 0 % 15090.9 millions/s 68.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 24037.4 millions/s 0 % 12582.9 millions/s 47.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Xeon E3-1225 v6.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Xeon E3-1225 v6
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 113.8 FPS 84.7 FPS
High settings 182.1 FPS 135.4 FPS
Medium settings 227.7 FPS 169.3 FPS
Low settings 284.6 FPS 211.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 25.6 %

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 E3-1225 v6
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.8 FPS 127.5 FPS
High settings 231.7 FPS 204.0 FPS
Medium settings 289.6 FPS 255.1 FPS
Low settings 362.0 FPS 318.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 11.9 %
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