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General information Core i7-6950X Xeon E5-2683 v3
Launched Q2 2016 Q1 2015
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 GHz 33.3 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 25 %
Cores 10 28.6 % 14 0 %
Threads 20 28.6 % 28 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 120 W 14.3 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
14 × 32 kB Instruction
14 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 10 × 256 kB
14 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 25 MB
1 × 35 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-6950X Xeon E5-2683 v3
Overall Score 57930 0 % 55569 4.1 %
Future Proof 53 % 0 % 46 % 13.2 %
Benchmark Score 11262 0 % 9536 15.3 %
Single Thread Score 2334 0 % 1683 27.9 %
Encrypting Data 5019.8 MB/s 0 % 4343.1 MB/s 13.5 %
Compressing Data 270.2 MB/s 0 % 258 MB/s 4.5 %
String objects sorting 35548.8 thousand/s 0 % 35564.4 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 78.5 millions/s 0 % 64.3 millions/s 18.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 64087.2 millions/s 0 % 62615 millions/s 2.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 41170.2 millions/s 0 % 31033.5 millions/s 24.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-6950X, Xeon E5-2683 v3.

Average frames per second Core i7-6950X Xeon E5-2683 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 126.8 FPS 119.8 FPS
High settings 202.9 FPS 191.6 FPS
Medium settings 253.6 FPS 239.5 FPS
Low settings 317.0 FPS 299.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 5.5 %

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 E5-2683 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.6 FPS 148.4 FPS
High settings 244.1 FPS 237.5 FPS
Medium settings 305.1 FPS 296.9 FPS
Low settings 381.4 FPS 371.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 2.7 %
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