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General information Core i7-990X Xeon E5-2609 v3
Launched Q1 2011 Q4 2014
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1366 LGA2011-v3
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Xeon E5
Core Family Name Gulftown Haswell-EP
Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 1.9 GHz 45.7 %
Cores 6 0 % 6 0 %
Threads 12 0 % 6 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 0 % 80 W 38.5 %
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 × 12 MB
1 × 15 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-990X Xeon E5-2609 v3
Overall Score 46297 0 % 41139 11.1 %
Future Proof 23 % 47.7 % 44 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 4594 0 % 2864 37.7 %
Single Thread Score 1568 0 % 1088.2 30.6 %
Encrypting Data 2658 MB/s 0 % 1062.3 MB/s 60 %
Compressing Data 119.9 MB/s 0 % 59.8 MB/s 50.1 %
String objects sorting 16280 thousand/s 0 % 8452.8 thousand/s 48.1 %
Prime numbers generation 32.9 millions/s 19 % 40.6 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 29651.3 millions/s 0 % 12956.9 millions/s 56.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12617.7 millions/s 0 % 9848.2 millions/s 21.9 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-990X, Xeon E5-2609 v3.

Average frames per second Core i7-990X Xeon E5-2609 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 92.2 FPS 76.9 FPS
High settings 147.5 FPS 123.0 FPS
Medium settings 184.4 FPS 153.7 FPS
Low settings 230.5 FPS 192.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 16.6 %

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 i7-990X Xeon E5-2609 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 132.0 FPS 122.9 FPS
High settings 211.2 FPS 196.7 FPS
Medium settings 264.0 FPS 245.8 FPS
Low settings 330.0 FPS 307.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 6.9 %
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