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General information Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2630 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 % 2.6 GHz 13.3 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 3.1 GHz 11.4 %
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 E5-2630 v2
Overall Score 53636 0 % 46898 12.6 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 37 % 14 %
Benchmark Score 8276 0 % 4837 41.6 %
Single Thread Score 1997.9 0 % 1583 20.8 %
Encrypting Data 3690.5 MB/s 0 % 2218.3 MB/s 39.9 %
Compressing Data 193.4 MB/s 0 % 122.1 MB/s 36.9 %
String objects sorting 27813 thousand/s 0 % 17043.6 thousand/s 38.7 %
Prime numbers generation 61.9 millions/s 0 % 38 millions/s 38.6 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47940.9 millions/s 0 % 27254.2 millions/s 43.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23906.5 millions/s 0 % 13931.3 millions/s 41.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Xeon E5-2630 v2.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Xeon E5-2630 v2
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 114.0 FPS 94.0 FPS
High settings 182.5 FPS 150.4 FPS
Medium settings 228.1 FPS 188.0 FPS
Low settings 285.1 FPS 235.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 17.6 %

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 E5-2630 v2
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.2 FPS 133.3 FPS
High settings 232.3 FPS 213.3 FPS
Medium settings 290.3 FPS 266.6 FPS
Low settings 362.9 FPS 333.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 8.2 %
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