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General information Xeon E5-2640 v3 Core i7-960
Launched Q3 2014 Q4 2009
Used in Server Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 LGA1366
Series Name Intel Xeon E5 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Haswell-EP Bloomfield
Clock 2.6 GHz 18.8 % 3.2 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.4 GHz 2.9 % 3.5 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 4 50 %
Threads 16 0 % 8 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 90 W 30.8 % 130 W 0 %
Lithography 22 nm 51.1 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Xeon E5-2640 v3 Core i7-960
Overall Score 51793 0 % 38314 26 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 15 % 65.1 %
Benchmark Score 7196 0 % 2155 70.1 %
Single Thread Score 1885.8 0 % 1463.8 22.4 %
Encrypting Data 3233.6 MB/s 33.9 % 4891.1 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 174.8 MB/s 0 % 71.5 MB/s 59.1 %
String objects sorting 24541.8 thousand/s 0 % 9932.6 thousand/s 59.5 %
Prime numbers generation 49 millions/s 0 % 22.8 millions/s 53.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 42355.6 millions/s 0 % 18038 millions/s 57.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 21112.3 millions/s 0 % 7761.6 millions/s 63.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E5-2640 v3, Core i7-960.

Average frames per second Xeon E5-2640 v3 Core i7-960
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 108.5 FPS 68.5 FPS
High settings 173.6 FPS 109.7 FPS
Medium settings 217.0 FPS 137.1 FPS
Low settings 271.2 FPS 171.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 36.8 %

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 Xeon E5-2640 v3 Core i7-960
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 141.9 FPS 118.1 FPS
High settings 227.1 FPS 188.9 FPS
Medium settings 283.9 FPS 236.2 FPS
Low settings 354.8 FPS 295.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 16.8 %
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