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General information Xeon E5-2640 v3 Core2 Duo E8400
Launched Q3 2014 Q4 2008
Used in Server Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 LGA775
Series Name Intel Xeon E5 Intel Core 2 Duo
Core Family Name Haswell-EP Wolfdale
Clock 2.6 GHz 13.3 % 3 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 2 75 %
Threads 16 0 % 2 87.5 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 90 W 0 % 65 W 27.8 %
Lithography 22 nm 51.1 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Xeon E5-2640 v3 Core2 Duo E8400
Overall Score 51781 0 % 29685 42.7 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 10 % 76.7 %
Benchmark Score 7189 0 % 776 89.2 %
Single Thread Score 1880.4 0 % 1232.1 34.5 %
Encrypting Data 3246.4 MB/s 0 % 1758.6 MB/s 45.8 %
Compressing Data 175.6 MB/s 0 % 24.4 MB/s 86.1 %
String objects sorting 24171.5 thousand/s 0 % 3386.8 thousand/s 86 %
Prime numbers generation 49.3 millions/s 0 % 8.9 millions/s 81.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 42548.9 millions/s 0 % 5196.4 millions/s 87.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 21231.1 millions/s 0 % 3052.9 millions/s 85.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E5-2640 v3, Core2 Duo E8400.

Average frames per second Xeon E5-2640 v3 Core2 Duo E8400
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 108.5 FPS 43.0 FPS
High settings 173.5 FPS 68.8 FPS
Medium settings 216.9 FPS 86.0 FPS
Low settings 271.2 FPS 107.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 60.4 %

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 Core2 Duo E8400
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 141.7 FPS 102.6 FPS
High settings 226.7 FPS 164.2 FPS
Medium settings 283.4 FPS 205.3 FPS
Low settings 354.2 FPS 256.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 27.6 %
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