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General information Xeon E5-2699 v3 Core i7-3960X
Launched Q3 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 2.3 GHz 30.3 % 3.3 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.6 GHz 7.7 % 3.9 GHz 0 %
Cores 18 0 % 6 66.7 %
Threads 36 0 % 12 66.7 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 145 W 0 % 130 W 10.3 %
Lithography 22 nm 31.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 18 × 32 kB Instruction
18 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 18 × 256 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 45 MB
1 × 15 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Xeon E5-2699 v3 Core i7-3960X
Overall Score 60189 0 % 48276 19.8 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 27 % 37.2 %
Benchmark Score 13124 0 % 5431 58.6 %
Single Thread Score 1896 0 % 1798.8 5.1 %
Encrypting Data 6494.5 MB/s 0 % 2555.3 MB/s 60.7 %
Compressing Data 360.1 MB/s 0 % 136.8 MB/s 62 %
String objects sorting 48580.8 thousand/s 0 % 20942 thousand/s 56.9 %
Prime numbers generation 91.5 millions/s 0 % 41.6 millions/s 54.6 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 89802.8 millions/s 0 % 33089.8 millions/s 63.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 44472.8 millions/s 0 % 12249.5 millions/s 72.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E5-2699 v3, Core i7-3960X.

Average frames per second Xeon E5-2699 v3 Core i7-3960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 133.5 FPS 98.1 FPS
High settings 213.6 FPS 156.9 FPS
Medium settings 267.0 FPS 196.2 FPS
Low settings 333.7 FPS 245.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 26.5 %

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 E5-2699 v3 Core i7-3960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 156.6 FPS 135.7 FPS
High settings 250.6 FPS 217.0 FPS
Medium settings 313.3 FPS 271.3 FPS
Low settings 391.6 FPS 339.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.4 %
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