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General information Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2670
Launched Q3 2014 Q1 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 % 2.6 GHz 13.3 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 3.3 GHz 5.7 %
Cores 8 0 % 8 0 %
Threads 16 0 % 16 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 115 W 17.9 %
Lithography 22 nm 31.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2670
Overall Score 53636 0 % 49050 8.6 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 28 % 34.9 %
Benchmark Score 8276 0 % 5788 30.1 %
Single Thread Score 1988 0 % 1479.8 25.6 %
Encrypting Data 3694.2 MB/s 0 % 2808.6 MB/s 24 %
Compressing Data 193.2 MB/s 0 % 150.9 MB/s 21.9 %
String objects sorting 27840.8 thousand/s 0 % 22887.1 thousand/s 17.8 %
Prime numbers generation 61.7 millions/s 0 % 46 millions/s 25.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47464.4 millions/s 0 % 36257.2 millions/s 23.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23739.7 millions/s 0 % 13353.4 millions/s 43.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Xeon E5-2670.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2670
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 114.0 FPS 100.4 FPS
High settings 182.5 FPS 160.7 FPS
Medium settings 228.1 FPS 200.8 FPS
Low settings 285.1 FPS 251.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 11.9 %

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 E5-2670
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.1 FPS 137.0 FPS
High settings 232.1 FPS 219.2 FPS
Medium settings 290.1 FPS 274.0 FPS
Low settings 362.7 FPS 342.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 5.6 %
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