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General information Core i7-6950X Xeon E5-2690 v3
Launched Q2 2016 Q3 2014
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 LGA2011-v3
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Xeon E5
Core Family Name Broadwell-E Haswell-EP
Clock 3 GHz 0 % 2.6 GHz 13.3 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 12.5 %
Cores 10 16.7 % 12 0 %
Threads 20 16.7 % 24 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 135 W 3.6 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
12 × 32 kB Instruction
12 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 10 × 256 kB
12 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 25 MB
1 × 30 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-6950X Xeon E5-2690 v3
Overall Score 57949 0 % 57187 1.3 %
Future Proof 53 % 0 % 43 % 18.9 %
Benchmark Score 11276 0 % 10695 5.2 %
Single Thread Score 2321.9 0 % 1920.4 17.3 %
Encrypting Data 4994.6 MB/s 1.3 % 5060.9 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 274.1 MB/s 0 % 274.2 MB/s 0 %
String objects sorting 35349 thousand/s 9 % 38847.5 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 79.2 millions/s 0 % 74.3 millions/s 6.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 63276.7 millions/s 5.5 % 66951.8 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 41132 millions/s 0 % 33575.5 millions/s 18.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-6950X, Xeon E5-2690 v3.

Average frames per second Core i7-6950X Xeon E5-2690 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 126.8 FPS 124.5 FPS
High settings 202.8 FPS 199.2 FPS
Medium settings 253.5 FPS 249.0 FPS
Low settings 316.9 FPS 311.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 1.8 %

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 i7-6950X Xeon E5-2690 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.6 FPS 151.2 FPS
High settings 244.1 FPS 242.0 FPS
Medium settings 305.1 FPS 302.5 FPS
Low settings 381.4 FPS 378.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.9 %
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