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General information Core i9-9960X Xeon E5-2660 v3
Launched Q1 2019 Q3 2014
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 LGA2011-v3
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Xeon E5
Core Family Name Skylake-X Haswell-EP
Clock 3.1 GHz 0 % 2.6 GHz 16.1 %
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) 165 W 0 % 105 W 36.4 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 1 MB
10 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 22 MB
1 × 25 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-9960X Xeon E5-2660 v3
Overall Score 66672 0 % 54011 19 %
Future Proof 69 % 0 % 43 % 37.7 %
Benchmark Score 19760 0 % 8510 56.9 %
Single Thread Score 2611.4 0 % 1809 30.7 %
Encrypting Data 11287 MB/s 0 % 3950 MB/s 65 %
Compressing Data 505.3 MB/s 0 % 213.2 MB/s 57.8 %
String objects sorting 64860 thousand/s 0 % 30153.6 thousand/s 53.5 %
Prime numbers generation 112.8 millions/s 0 % 57.5 millions/s 49.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 117861 millions/s 0 % 52672.8 millions/s 55.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 72760.8 millions/s 0 % 26470.7 millions/s 63.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-9960X, Xeon E5-2660 v3.

Average frames per second Core i9-9960X Xeon E5-2660 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.7 FPS 115.2 FPS
High settings 244.4 FPS 184.3 FPS
Medium settings 305.5 FPS 230.3 FPS
Low settings 381.9 FPS 287.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 24.6 %

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 i9-9960X Xeon E5-2660 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 168.0 FPS 145.7 FPS
High settings 268.7 FPS 233.1 FPS
Medium settings 335.9 FPS 291.4 FPS
Low settings 419.9 FPS 364.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.2 %
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