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General information Core i7-990X Xeon E5-1620 v3
Launched Q1 2011 Q3 2014
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1366 LGA2011-v3
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Xeon E5
Core Family Name Gulftown Haswell-EP
Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 3.6 GHz 2.7 %
Cores 6 0 % 4 33.3 %
Threads 12 0 % 8 33.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 7.1 % 140 W 0 %
Lithography 32 nm 0 % 22 nm 31.3 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 12 MB
1 × 10 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-990X Xeon E5-1620 v3
Overall Score 46297 0 % 46102 0.4 %
Future Proof 23 % 46.5 % 43 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 4594 0 % 4517 1.7 %
Single Thread Score 1579 21.9 % 2023.1 0 %
Encrypting Data 2684.7 MB/s 0 % 1912.6 MB/s 28.8 %
Compressing Data 120 MB/s 0 % 99.9 MB/s 16.8 %
String objects sorting 16053.2 thousand/s 0 % 14377.6 thousand/s 10.4 %
Prime numbers generation 33 millions/s 0 % 33 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 29473.2 millions/s 0 % 24561.9 millions/s 16.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12592.7 millions/s 0 % 12469.4 millions/s 1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-990X, Xeon E5-1620 v3.

Average frames per second Core i7-990X Xeon E5-1620 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 92.2 FPS 91.6 FPS
High settings 147.5 FPS 146.6 FPS
Medium settings 184.4 FPS 183.3 FPS
Low settings 230.5 FPS 229.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.6 %

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 Core i7-990X Xeon E5-1620 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 131.9 FPS 131.7 FPS
High settings 211.1 FPS 210.6 FPS
Medium settings 263.9 FPS 263.3 FPS
Low settings 329.9 FPS 329.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.2 %
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