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General information Xeon E5-2640 v3 Core i7-980X
Launched Q3 2014 Q1 2010
Used in Server Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 LGA1366
Series Name Intel Xeon E5 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Haswell-EP Gulftown
Clock 2.6 GHz 21.2 % 3.3 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.4 GHz 5.6 % 3.6 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 6 25 %
Threads 16 0 % 12 25 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 90 W 30.8 % 130 W 0 %
Lithography 22 nm 31.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 12 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Xeon E5-2640 v3 Core i7-980X
Overall Score 51783 0 % 45842 11.5 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 17 % 60.5 %
Benchmark Score 7191 0 % 4416 38.6 %
Single Thread Score 1856 0 % 1522.4 18 %
Encrypting Data 3280.1 MB/s 0 % 2533.4 MB/s 22.8 %
Compressing Data 173.4 MB/s 0 % 114.7 MB/s 33.9 %
String objects sorting 24563.8 thousand/s 0 % 15344.3 thousand/s 37.5 %
Prime numbers generation 49.3 millions/s 0 % 33 millions/s 33.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 42132.2 millions/s 0 % 28277.4 millions/s 32.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 21277.7 millions/s 0 % 12005.8 millions/s 43.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E5-2640 v3, Core i7-980X.

Average frames per second Xeon E5-2640 v3 Core i7-980X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 108.5 FPS 90.8 FPS
High settings 173.5 FPS 145.4 FPS
Medium settings 216.9 FPS 181.7 FPS
Low settings 271.2 FPS 227.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 16.2 %

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 Xeon E5-2640 v3 Core i7-980X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 141.7 FPS 131.2 FPS
High settings 226.7 FPS 209.9 FPS
Medium settings 283.4 FPS 262.4 FPS
Low settings 354.2 FPS 328.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 7.4 %
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