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General information Core i7-6950X Xeon E5-1680 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 6.3 % 3.2 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.8 GHz 5 %
Cores 10 0 % 8 20 %
Threads 20 0 % 16 20 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 140 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 10 × 256 kB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 25 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-6950X Xeon E5-1680 v3
Overall Score 57719 0 % 53770 6.8 %
Future Proof 53 % 0 % 46 % 13.2 %
Benchmark Score 11099 0 % 8359 24.7 %
Single Thread Score 2347.7 0 % 2110.6 10.1 %
Encrypting Data 5024.8 MB/s 0 % 3859.4 MB/s 23.2 %
Compressing Data 273.8 MB/s 0 % 198.3 MB/s 27.6 %
String objects sorting 35991 thousand/s 0 % 28522.2 thousand/s 20.8 %
Prime numbers generation 78.7 millions/s 0 % 61.3 millions/s 22.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 63723.2 millions/s 0 % 48928 millions/s 23.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 41132 millions/s 0 % 24496.3 millions/s 40.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-6950X, Xeon E5-1680 v3.

Average frames per second Core i7-6950X Xeon E5-1680 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 126.8 FPS 115.0 FPS
High settings 202.8 FPS 183.9 FPS
Medium settings 253.5 FPS 229.9 FPS
Low settings 316.9 FPS 287.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 9.3 %

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 i7-6950X Xeon E5-1680 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 153.5 FPS 146.3 FPS
High settings 245.6 FPS 234.1 FPS
Medium settings 306.9 FPS 292.6 FPS
Low settings 383.7 FPS 365.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 4.7 %
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