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General information Core i9-7960X Xeon E5-1680 v3
Launched Q4 2017 Q1 2015
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 LGA2011-v3
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Xeon E5
Core Family Name Skylake-X Haswell-EP
Clock 2.8 GHz 12.5 % 3.2 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 0 % 3.8 GHz 9.5 %
Cores 16 0 % 8 50 %
Threads 32 0 % 16 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 140 W 15.2 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 1 MB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 22 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7960X Xeon E5-1680 v3
Overall Score 65663 0 % 53979 17.8 %
Future Proof 62 % 0 % 46 % 25.8 %
Benchmark Score 18590 0 % 8490 54.3 %
Single Thread Score 2481.5 0 % 2108.5 15 %
Encrypting Data 11212.4 MB/s 0 % 3825 MB/s 65.9 %
Compressing Data 464.7 MB/s 0 % 198.1 MB/s 57.4 %
String objects sorting 58811.5 thousand/s 0 % 28751 thousand/s 51.1 %
Prime numbers generation 104.1 millions/s 0 % 61 millions/s 41.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 107478 millions/s 0 % 48536.2 millions/s 54.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 66967 millions/s 0 % 24643.7 millions/s 63.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7960X, Xeon E5-1680 v3.

Average frames per second Core i9-7960X Xeon E5-1680 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 149.7 FPS 115.0 FPS
High settings 239.5 FPS 184.0 FPS
Medium settings 299.4 FPS 230.0 FPS
Low settings 374.3 FPS 287.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 23.2 %

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 i9-7960X Xeon E5-1680 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 166.2 FPS 145.6 FPS
High settings 265.9 FPS 233.0 FPS
Medium settings 332.4 FPS 291.3 FPS
Low settings 415.5 FPS 364.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 12.4 %
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