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General information Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2630
Launched Q3 2014 Q2 2012
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 LGA2011
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Xeon E5
Core Family Name Haswell-E Sandy Bridge-EP
Clock 3 GHz 0 % 2.3 GHz 23.3 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 2.8 GHz 20 %
Cores 8 0 % 6 25 %
Threads 16 0 % 12 25 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 95 W 32.1 %
Lithography 22 nm 31.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 15 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2630
Overall Score 53560 0 % 44714 16.5 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 30 % 30.2 %
Benchmark Score 8229 0 % 3997 51.4 %
Single Thread Score 1993.9 0 % 1296.3 35 %
Encrypting Data 3683.9 MB/s 0 % 1911.3 MB/s 48.1 %
Compressing Data 191.1 MB/s 0 % 97.7 MB/s 48.9 %
String objects sorting 27808.2 thousand/s 0 % 15534.3 thousand/s 44.1 %
Prime numbers generation 60.8 millions/s 0 % 34.2 millions/s 43.8 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 48039.5 millions/s 0 % 23571.7 millions/s 50.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23784.2 millions/s 0 % 8834.8 millions/s 62.9 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Xeon E5-2630.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2630
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 113.7 FPS 87.5 FPS
High settings 182.0 FPS 139.9 FPS
Medium settings 227.5 FPS 174.9 FPS
Low settings 284.3 FPS 218.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 23.1 %

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 E5-2630
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.8 FPS 129.2 FPS
High settings 231.7 FPS 206.7 FPS
Medium settings 289.6 FPS 258.4 FPS
Low settings 362.0 FPS 323.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 10.8 %
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