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General information Core i7-3970X Xeon E5-2609 v3
Launched Q1 2012 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 3.5 GHz 0 % 1.9 GHz 45.7 %
Cores 6 0 % 6 0 %
Threads 12 0 % 6 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 W 0 % 80 W 46.7 %
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 No
Performance Core i7-3970X Xeon E5-2609 v3
Overall Score 48362 0 % 41171 14.9 %
Future Proof 28 % 36.4 % 44 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 5470 0 % 2873 47.5 %
Single Thread Score 1838.2 0 % 1087.1 40.9 %
Encrypting Data 2682.6 MB/s 0 % 1073.4 MB/s 60 %
Compressing Data 143.7 MB/s 0 % 61 MB/s 57.5 %
String objects sorting 21252 thousand/s 0 % 8519.8 thousand/s 59.9 %
Prime numbers generation 39.9 millions/s 2.1 % 40.8 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 32369.9 millions/s 0 % 12806.7 millions/s 60.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12851 millions/s 0 % 9855.2 millions/s 23.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-3970X, Xeon E5-2609 v3.

Average frames per second Core i7-3970X Xeon E5-2609 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 98.3 FPS 77.0 FPS
High settings 157.3 FPS 123.2 FPS
Medium settings 196.7 FPS 154.0 FPS
Low settings 245.9 FPS 192.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 21.7 %

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 i7-3970X Xeon E5-2609 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 135.8 FPS 123.1 FPS
High settings 217.2 FPS 197.0 FPS
Medium settings 271.5 FPS 246.2 FPS
Low settings 339.4 FPS 307.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 9.3 %
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