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General information Xeon E5-2640 v3 Core i7-3960X
Launched Q3 2014 Q4 2011
Used in Server Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 LGA2011
Series Name Intel Xeon E5 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Haswell-EP Sandy Bridge-E
Clock 2.6 GHz 21.2 % 3.3 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.4 GHz 12.8 % 3.9 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 × 15 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Xeon E5-2640 v3 Core i7-3960X
Overall Score 51793 0 % 48276 6.8 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 27 % 37.2 %
Benchmark Score 7196 0 % 5431 24.5 %
Single Thread Score 1863.4 0 % 1797 3.6 %
Encrypting Data 3256.5 MB/s 0 % 2539.9 MB/s 22 %
Compressing Data 174.8 MB/s 0 % 138.1 MB/s 21 %
String objects sorting 24615.1 thousand/s 0 % 20963 thousand/s 14.8 %
Prime numbers generation 49.1 millions/s 0 % 41.9 millions/s 14.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 42865.3 millions/s 0 % 32925 millions/s 23.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 21410.5 millions/s 0 % 12359.9 millions/s 42.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E5-2640 v3, Core i7-3960X.

Average frames per second Xeon E5-2640 v3 Core i7-3960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 108.5 FPS 98.1 FPS
High settings 173.6 FPS 156.9 FPS
Medium settings 217.0 FPS 196.2 FPS
Low settings 271.2 FPS 245.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 9.6 %

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 i7-3960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 141.8 FPS 135.6 FPS
High settings 226.8 FPS 217.0 FPS
Medium settings 283.6 FPS 271.2 FPS
Low settings 354.4 FPS 339.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 4.4 %
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