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General information Ryzen Threadripper 2950X Xeon E5-2660 v3
Launched Q3 2018 Q3 2014
Used in Desktop Server
Factory AMD Intel
Socket sTR4 LGA2011-v3
Series Name AMD Threadripper Intel Xeon E5
Core Family Name Colfax Haswell-EP
Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 2.6 GHz 25.7 %
Turbo Clock 4.4 GHz 0 % 3.3 GHz 25 %
Cores 16 0 % 10 37.5 %
Threads 32 0 % 20 37.5 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 180 W 0 % 105 W 41.7 %
Lithography 12 nm 45.5 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 16 × 64 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 512 kB
10 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 4 × 8 MB
1 × 25 MB
ECC Supported Yes Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen Threadripper 2950X Xeon E5-2660 v3
Overall Score 66016 0 % 54011 18.2 %
Future Proof 66 % 0 % 43 % 34.8 %
Benchmark Score 18993 0 % 8510 55.2 %
Single Thread Score 2439.8 0 % 1810.8 25.8 %
Encrypting Data 32088 MB/s 0 % 3973.6 MB/s 87.6 %
Compressing Data 501.2 MB/s 0 % 212.4 MB/s 57.6 %
String objects sorting 56460.7 thousand/s 0 % 30003.9 thousand/s 46.9 %
Prime numbers generation 64.5 millions/s 0 % 57.2 millions/s 11.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 127024 millions/s 0 % 52253.1 millions/s 58.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 64797 millions/s 0 % 26181 millions/s 59.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen Threadripper 2950X, Xeon E5-2660 v3.

Average frames per second Ryzen Threadripper 2950X Xeon E5-2660 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 150.8 FPS 115.1 FPS
High settings 241.2 FPS 184.1 FPS
Medium settings 301.5 FPS 230.2 FPS
Low settings 376.9 FPS 287.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 23.7 %

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 Ryzen Threadripper 2950X Xeon E5-2660 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 166.9 FPS 145.8 FPS
High settings 267.0 FPS 233.3 FPS
Medium settings 333.8 FPS 291.6 FPS
Low settings 417.2 FPS 364.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 12.6 %
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