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General information Core i7-5960X Core i5-660
Launched Q3 2014 Q4 2009
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 LGA1156
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Haswell-E Clarkdale
Clock 3 GHz 9.1 % 3.3 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 2.8 % 3.6 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 2 75 %
Threads 16 0 % 4 75 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 73 W 47.9 %
Lithography 22 nm 31.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
2 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 4 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-5960X Core i5-660
Overall Score 53679 0 % 35313 34.2 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 15 % 65.1 %
Benchmark Score 8302 0 % 1555 81.3 %
Single Thread Score 1969.1 0 % 1408.1 28.5 %
Encrypting Data 3699.7 MB/s 0 % 3314.8 MB/s 10.4 %
Compressing Data 193 MB/s 0 % 37.5 MB/s 80.6 %
String objects sorting 27865.6 thousand/s 0 % 5134.1 thousand/s 81.6 %
Prime numbers generation 62.4 millions/s 0 % 11 millions/s 82.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47622.7 millions/s 0 % 9297.6 millions/s 80.5 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23525.3 millions/s 0 % 3990.9 millions/s 83 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Core i5-660.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Core i5-660
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 113.6 FPS 59.3 FPS
High settings 181.8 FPS 94.9 FPS
Medium settings 227.3 FPS 118.6 FPS
Low settings 284.1 FPS 148.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 47.8 %

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 Core i5-660
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.9 FPS 112.5 FPS
High settings 231.8 FPS 180.0 FPS
Medium settings 289.8 FPS 225.0 FPS
Low settings 362.2 FPS 281.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 22.3 %
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