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General information Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2620 v2
Launched Q3 2014 Q3 2013
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 FCLGA2011
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Xeon E5
Core Family Name Haswell-E Ivy Bridge-EP
Clock 3 GHz 0 % 2.1 GHz 30 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 2.6 GHz 25.7 %
Cores 8 0 % 6 25 %
Threads 16 0 % 12 25 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 80 W 42.9 %
Lithography 22 nm 0 % 22 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 E5-2620 v2
Overall Score 53568 0 % 44824 16.3 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 37 % 14 %
Benchmark Score 8234 0 % 4037 51 %
Single Thread Score 1995 0 % 1297.7 34.9 %
Encrypting Data 3722.9 MB/s 0 % 1812.9 MB/s 51.3 %
Compressing Data 194.3 MB/s 0 % 100 MB/s 48.5 %
String objects sorting 27831.2 thousand/s 0 % 14175.4 thousand/s 49.1 %
Prime numbers generation 61.5 millions/s 0 % 35.1 millions/s 43 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47972.5 millions/s 0 % 22297.8 millions/s 53.5 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 24037.4 millions/s 0 % 11315 millions/s 52.9 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Xeon E5-2620 v2.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2620 v2
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 113.8 FPS 87.8 FPS
High settings 182.1 FPS 140.5 FPS
Medium settings 227.7 FPS 175.6 FPS
Low settings 284.6 FPS 219.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 22.9 %

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 E5-2620 v2
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.9 FPS 129.5 FPS
High settings 231.8 FPS 207.1 FPS
Medium settings 289.8 FPS 258.9 FPS
Low settings 362.2 FPS 323.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 10.7 %
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