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General information Core i7-6950X Xeon E5-2630 v3
Launched Q2 2016 Q4 2014
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 LGA2011-v3
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Xeon E5
Core Family Name Broadwell-E Haswell-EP
Clock 3 GHz 0 % 2.4 GHz 20 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 20 %
Cores 10 0 % 8 20 %
Threads 20 0 % 16 20 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 85 W 39.3 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 10 × 256 kB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 25 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-6950X Xeon E5-2630 v3
Overall Score 57719 0 % 50765 12 %
Future Proof 53 % 0 % 44 % 17 %
Benchmark Score 11099 0 % 6642 40.2 %
Single Thread Score 2347.7 0 % 1758.7 25.1 %
Encrypting Data 5024.8 MB/s 0 % 3062.7 MB/s 39 %
Compressing Data 273.8 MB/s 0 % 159.8 MB/s 41.6 %
String objects sorting 35991 thousand/s 0 % 22489.2 thousand/s 37.5 %
Prime numbers generation 78.7 millions/s 0 % 51.2 millions/s 34.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 63723.2 millions/s 0 % 39010.7 millions/s 38.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 41132 millions/s 0 % 19303.3 millions/s 53.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-6950X, Xeon E5-2630 v3.

Average frames per second Core i7-6950X Xeon E5-2630 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 126.8 FPS 106.0 FPS
High settings 202.8 FPS 169.6 FPS
Medium settings 253.5 FPS 212.0 FPS
Low settings 316.9 FPS 265.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 16.4 %

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 i7-6950X Xeon E5-2630 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 153.5 FPS 140.8 FPS
High settings 245.6 FPS 225.3 FPS
Medium settings 306.9 FPS 281.7 FPS
Low settings 383.7 FPS 352.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 8.2 %
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