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General information Xeon E5-1660 v3 Core2 Duo E8300
Launched Q4 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 3 GHz 0 % 2.8 GHz 6.7 %
Cores 8 0 % 2 75 %
Threads 16 0 % 2 87.5 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 65 W 53.6 %
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 E5-1660 v3 Core2 Duo E8300
Overall Score 53302 0 % 28335 46.8 %
Future Proof 44 % 0 % 10 % 77.3 %
Benchmark Score 8072 0 % 645 92 %
Single Thread Score 1977 0 % 1083.6 45.2 %
Encrypting Data 3755 MB/s 0 % 1451.2 MB/s 61.4 %
Compressing Data 188.4 MB/s 0 % 19.3 MB/s 89.8 %
String objects sorting 27477.9 thousand/s 0 % 2888.6 thousand/s 89.5 %
Prime numbers generation 59.5 millions/s 0 % 8 millions/s 86.5 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 45727 millions/s 0 % 4331.3 millions/s 90.5 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23130.2 millions/s 0 % 2420.3 millions/s 89.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E5-1660 v3, Core2 Duo E8300.

Average frames per second Xeon E5-1660 v3 Core2 Duo E8300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 113.0 FPS 39.5 FPS
High settings 180.9 FPS 63.1 FPS
Medium settings 226.1 FPS 78.9 FPS
Low settings 282.6 FPS 98.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 65.1 %

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 Core2 Duo E8300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.3 FPS 100.3 FPS
High settings 231.0 FPS 160.5 FPS
Medium settings 288.7 FPS 200.6 FPS
Low settings 360.9 FPS 250.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 30.5 %
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