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General information Core i7-3960X Xeon E5-2620 v3
Launched Q4 2011 Q4 2014
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011 LGA2011-v3
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Xeon E5
Core Family Name Sandy Bridge-E Haswell-EP
Clock 3.3 GHz 0 % 2.4 GHz 27.3 %
Turbo Clock 3.9 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 17.9 %
Cores 6 0 % 6 0 %
Threads 12 0 % 12 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 0 % 85 W 34.6 %
Lithography 32 nm 0 % 22 nm 31.3 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 15 MB
1 × 15 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-3960X Xeon E5-2620 v3
Overall Score 48276 0 % 47400 1.8 %
Future Proof 27 % 38.6 % 44 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 5431 0 % 5048 7.1 %
Single Thread Score 1779 0 % 1693.7 4.8 %
Encrypting Data 2580.9 MB/s 0 % 2200.4 MB/s 14.7 %
Compressing Data 139.1 MB/s 0 % 116.2 MB/s 16.4 %
String objects sorting 21194 thousand/s 0 % 16539.9 thousand/s 22 %
Prime numbers generation 42.3 millions/s 0 % 36.3 millions/s 14 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 32628.4 millions/s 0 % 28782.4 millions/s 11.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12298.5 millions/s 15.3 % 14514.6 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-3960X, Xeon E5-2620 v3.

Average frames per second Core i7-3960X Xeon E5-2620 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 98.1 FPS 95.2 FPS
High settings 156.9 FPS 152.2 FPS
Medium settings 196.2 FPS 190.3 FPS
Low settings 245.2 FPS 237.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 3 %

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 i7-3960X Xeon E5-2620 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 135.7 FPS 133.9 FPS
High settings 217.0 FPS 214.2 FPS
Medium settings 271.3 FPS 267.8 FPS
Low settings 339.1 FPS 334.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 1.3 %
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