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General information Core i7-6900K Xeon E5-2640 v3
Launched Q2 2016 Q3 2014
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2011-3 LGA2011-v3
Series Name Intel Core i7 Intel Xeon E5
Core Family Name Broadwell-E Haswell-EP
Clock 3.2 GHz 0 % 2.6 GHz 18.8 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.4 GHz 15 %
Cores 8 0 % 8 0 %
Threads 16 0 % 16 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 90 W 35.7 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-6900K Xeon E5-2640 v3
Overall Score 55285 0 % 51793 6.3 %
Future Proof 53 % 0 % 43 % 18.9 %
Benchmark Score 9342 0 % 7196 23 %
Single Thread Score 2359 0 % 1882.1 20.2 %
Encrypting Data 4019.5 MB/s 0 % 3230.4 MB/s 19.6 %
Compressing Data 219.3 MB/s 0 % 174.3 MB/s 20.5 %
String objects sorting 28445.6 thousand/s 0 % 24297.3 thousand/s 14.6 %
Prime numbers generation 64.1 millions/s 0 % 49.2 millions/s 23.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 51114.1 millions/s 0 % 42185.6 millions/s 17.5 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 33123.4 millions/s 0 % 21325.3 millions/s 35.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-6900K, Xeon E5-2640 v3.

Average frames per second Core i7-6900K Xeon E5-2640 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 118.9 FPS 108.6 FPS
High settings 190.3 FPS 173.7 FPS
Medium settings 237.8 FPS 217.1 FPS
Low settings 297.3 FPS 271.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 8.7 %

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 Core i7-6900K Xeon E5-2640 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 147.9 FPS 141.8 FPS
High settings 236.7 FPS 226.8 FPS
Medium settings 295.8 FPS 283.6 FPS
Low settings 369.8 FPS 354.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 4.2 %
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