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General information Xeon E5-1660 v3 Core i7-3970X
Launched Q4 2014 Q1 2012
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 14.3 % 3.5 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 12.5 % 4 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 6 25 %
Threads 16 0 % 12 25 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 6.7 % 150 W 0 %
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 i7-3970X
Overall Score 53302 0 % 48362 9.3 %
Future Proof 44 % 0 % 28 % 36.4 %
Benchmark Score 8072 0 % 5470 32.2 %
Single Thread Score 1959.2 0 % 1838.2 6.2 %
Encrypting Data 3751.2 MB/s 0 % 2682.6 MB/s 28.5 %
Compressing Data 189.7 MB/s 0 % 143.7 MB/s 24.3 %
String objects sorting 27150.1 thousand/s 0 % 21252 thousand/s 21.7 %
Prime numbers generation 58.5 millions/s 0 % 39.9 millions/s 31.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 45865 millions/s 0 % 32369.9 millions/s 29.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23268.7 millions/s 0 % 12851 millions/s 44.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E5-1660 v3, Core i7-3970X.

Average frames per second Xeon E5-1660 v3 Core i7-3970X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 113.0 FPS 98.3 FPS
High settings 180.9 FPS 157.3 FPS
Medium settings 226.1 FPS 196.7 FPS
Low settings 282.6 FPS 245.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 13 %

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 i7-3970X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.4 FPS 135.8 FPS
High settings 231.1 FPS 217.2 FPS
Medium settings 288.8 FPS 271.5 FPS
Low settings 361.1 FPS 339.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 6 %
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