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General information Core i7-6700K Xeon E5-2640 v2
Launched Q3 2015 Q1 2014
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1151 LGA2011
Series Name Intel Core i7 Intel Xeon E5
Core Family Name Skylake-S Ivy Bridge-EP
Clock 4 GHz 0 % 2 GHz 50 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 0 % 2.5 GHz 40.5 %
Cores 4 50 % 8 0 %
Threads 8 50 % 16 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 W 0 % 95 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 4 × 256 kB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 8 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-6700K Xeon E5-2640 v2
Overall Score 49016 0 % 47126 3.9 %
Future Proof 49 % 0 % 40 % 18.4 %
Benchmark Score 5772 0 % 4932 14.6 %
Single Thread Score 2491.5 0 % 1267.7 49.1 %
Encrypting Data 3042.7 MB/s 0 % 2316.5 MB/s 23.9 %
Compressing Data 122.9 MB/s 4.8 % 129.1 MB/s 0 %
String objects sorting 15945.3 thousand/s 8.9 % 17511 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 29.7 millions/s 27.8 % 41.2 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 28362 millions/s 2.8 % 29168 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 17360.6 millions/s 0 % 14741 millions/s 15.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-6700K, Xeon E5-2640 v2.

Average frames per second Core i7-6700K Xeon E5-2640 v2
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 100.3 FPS 94.7 FPS
High settings 160.5 FPS 151.5 FPS
Medium settings 200.6 FPS 189.4 FPS
Low settings 250.8 FPS 236.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 5.6 %

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 i7-6700K Xeon E5-2640 v2
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 136.9 FPS 133.6 FPS
High settings 219.1 FPS 213.8 FPS
Medium settings 273.9 FPS 267.3 FPS
Low settings 342.3 FPS 334.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 2.4 %
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