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General information Core i7-4960X Xeon E5-1620 v3
Launched Q1 2013 Q3 2014
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011 LGA2011-v3
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Xeon E5
Core Family Name Ivy Bridge-E Haswell-EP
Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 2.8 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.6 GHz 10 %
Cores 6 0 % 4 33.3 %
Threads 12 0 % 8 33.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 7.1 % 140 W 0 %
Lithography 22 nm 0 % 22 nm 0 %
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 × 15 MB
1 × 10 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-4960X Xeon E5-1620 v3
Overall Score 50541 0 % 46110 8.8 %
Future Proof 34 % 20.9 % 43 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 6525 0 % 4520 30.7 %
Single Thread Score 2100.7 0 % 2015 4.1 %
Encrypting Data 2965.1 MB/s 0 % 1915.6 MB/s 35.4 %
Compressing Data 163.4 MB/s 0 % 99.6 MB/s 39.1 %
String objects sorting 22875.9 thousand/s 0 % 14436.8 thousand/s 36.9 %
Prime numbers generation 48.3 millions/s 0 % 32.7 millions/s 32.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 37065 millions/s 0 % 24681.9 millions/s 33.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 18625.7 millions/s 0 % 12292.4 millions/s 34 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-4960X, Xeon E5-1620 v3.

Average frames per second Core i7-4960X Xeon E5-1620 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 104.8 FPS 91.7 FPS
High settings 167.7 FPS 146.6 FPS
Medium settings 209.6 FPS 183.3 FPS
Low settings 262.0 FPS 229.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 12.6 %

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 i7-4960X Xeon E5-1620 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 139.6 FPS 131.8 FPS
High settings 223.4 FPS 210.9 FPS
Medium settings 279.3 FPS 263.6 FPS
Low settings 349.1 FPS 329.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 5.6 %
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