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General information Core i9-7960X Xeon E5-2690 v3
Launched Q4 2017 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 2.8 GHz 0 % 2.6 GHz 7.1 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 16.7 %
Cores 16 0 % 12 25 %
Threads 32 0 % 24 25 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 135 W 18.2 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
12 × 32 kB Instruction
12 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 1 MB
12 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 22 MB
1 × 30 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7960X Xeon E5-2690 v3
Overall Score 65663 0 % 57179 12.9 %
Future Proof 62 % 0 % 43 % 30.6 %
Benchmark Score 18590 0 % 10689 42.5 %
Single Thread Score 2516.5 0 % 1921.3 23.7 %
Encrypting Data 11279.5 MB/s 0 % 5080.2 MB/s 55 %
Compressing Data 471.7 MB/s 0 % 272.7 MB/s 42.2 %
String objects sorting 59520.7 thousand/s 0 % 38437 thousand/s 35.4 %
Prime numbers generation 104.9 millions/s 0 % 75.3 millions/s 28.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 108339 millions/s 0 % 67467.7 millions/s 37.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 66631.8 millions/s 0 % 33431.7 millions/s 49.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7960X, Xeon E5-2690 v3.

Average frames per second Core i9-7960X Xeon E5-2690 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 149.8 FPS 124.5 FPS
High settings 239.7 FPS 199.2 FPS
Medium settings 299.6 FPS 249.1 FPS
Low settings 374.5 FPS 311.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 16.9 %

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 i9-7960X Xeon E5-2690 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 166.4 FPS 151.4 FPS
High settings 266.3 FPS 242.3 FPS
Medium settings 332.9 FPS 302.9 FPS
Low settings 416.1 FPS 378.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 9 %
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