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General information Core i9-7960X Xeon E5-2698 v3
Launched Q4 2017 Q3 2014
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 LGA2011-v3
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Xeon E5
Core Family Name Skylake-X Haswell-EP
Clock 2.8 GHz 0 % 2.3 GHz 17.9 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 0 % 3.6 GHz 14.3 %
Cores 16 0 % 16 0 %
Threads 32 0 % 32 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 135 W 18.2 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 1 MB
16 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 22 MB
1 × 40 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7960X Xeon E5-2698 v3
Overall Score 65663 0 % 59171 9.9 %
Future Proof 62 % 0 % 43 % 30.6 %
Benchmark Score 18590 0 % 12258 34.1 %
Single Thread Score 2504 0 % 1938.6 22.6 %
Encrypting Data 11078.1 MB/s 0 % 6031 MB/s 45.6 %
Compressing Data 470.8 MB/s 0 % 329.9 MB/s 29.9 %
String objects sorting 59284.3 thousand/s 0 % 44205.5 thousand/s 25.4 %
Prime numbers generation 104.1 millions/s 0 % 88 millions/s 15.5 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 106833 millions/s 0 % 81337.5 millions/s 23.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 67369.2 millions/s 0 % 40332.6 millions/s 40.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7960X, Xeon E5-2698 v3.

Average frames per second Core i9-7960X Xeon E5-2698 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 149.8 FPS 130.4 FPS
High settings 239.7 FPS 208.7 FPS
Medium settings 299.6 FPS 260.9 FPS
Low settings 374.5 FPS 326.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 12.9 %

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 i9-7960X Xeon E5-2698 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 166.2 FPS 154.7 FPS
High settings 265.9 FPS 247.6 FPS
Medium settings 332.4 FPS 309.5 FPS
Low settings 415.5 FPS 386.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 6.9 %
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