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General information Xeon E5-1660 v3 Core i7-3960X
Launched Q4 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 3 GHz 9.1 % 3.3 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 10.3 % 3.9 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 6 25 %
Threads 16 0 % 12 25 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 130 W 7.1 %
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 E5-1660 v3 Core i7-3960X
Overall Score 53302 0 % 48276 9.4 %
Future Proof 44 % 0 % 27 % 38.6 %
Benchmark Score 8072 0 % 5431 32.7 %
Single Thread Score 1959.2 0 % 1791.6 8.6 %
Encrypting Data 3758.7 MB/s 0 % 2580.9 MB/s 31.3 %
Compressing Data 189.2 MB/s 0 % 138.2 MB/s 26.9 %
String objects sorting 27477.9 thousand/s 0 % 21089 thousand/s 23.3 %
Prime numbers generation 59.5 millions/s 0 % 42.3 millions/s 29 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 45865 millions/s 0 % 32958 millions/s 28.1 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23014.7 millions/s 0 % 12163.5 millions/s 47.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E5-1660 v3, Core i7-3960X.

Average frames per second Xeon E5-1660 v3 Core i7-3960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 113.0 FPS 98.1 FPS
High settings 180.9 FPS 156.9 FPS
Medium settings 226.1 FPS 196.2 FPS
Low settings 282.6 FPS 245.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.2 %

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 E5-1660 v3 Core i7-3960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.5 FPS 135.7 FPS
High settings 231.2 FPS 217.0 FPS
Medium settings 289.0 FPS 271.3 FPS
Low settings 361.2 FPS 339.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 6.1 %
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