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General information Xeon E5-2680 v3 Core2 Quad Q8400
Launched Q4 2014 Q2 2009
Used in Server Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 LGA775
Series Name Intel Xeon E5 Intel Core 2 Quad
Core Family Name Haswell-EP Yorkfield
Clock 2.5 GHz 7.4 % 2.7 GHz 0 %
Cores 12 0 % 4 66.7 %
Threads 24 0 % 4 83.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 W 0 % 95 W 20.8 %
Lithography 22 nm 51.1 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 12 × 32 kB Instruction
12 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 12 × 256 kB
2 × 2 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Xeon E5-2680 v3 Core2 Quad Q8400
Overall Score 55956 0 % 34008 39.2 %
Future Proof 44 % 0 % 13 % 70.5 %
Benchmark Score 9804 0 % 1338 86.4 %
Single Thread Score 1801.8 0 % 1141.6 36.6 %
Encrypting Data 4518.3 MB/s 0 % 3029.7 MB/s 32.9 %
Compressing Data 251 MB/s 0 % 45.6 MB/s 81.8 %
String objects sorting 35542.1 thousand/s 0 % 6115.1 thousand/s 82.8 %
Prime numbers generation 68.6 millions/s 0 % 6.9 millions/s 89.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 62972.6 millions/s 0 % 9996.7 millions/s 84.1 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 31357.6 millions/s 0 % 5590.9 millions/s 82.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E5-2680 v3, Core2 Quad Q8400.

Average frames per second Xeon E5-2680 v3 Core2 Quad Q8400
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 120.9 FPS 55.7 FPS
High settings 193.5 FPS 89.2 FPS
Medium settings 241.9 FPS 111.5 FPS
Low settings 302.3 FPS 139.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 53.9 %

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 Xeon E5-2680 v3 Core2 Quad Q8400
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 149.0 FPS 110.3 FPS
High settings 238.5 FPS 176.4 FPS
Medium settings 298.1 FPS 220.5 FPS
Low settings 372.6 FPS 275.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 26 %
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