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General information Core i7-6950X Xeon E5-2658 v3
Launched Q2 2016 Q4 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 % 2.2 GHz 26.7 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 2.9 GHz 27.5 %
Cores 10 16.7 % 12 0 %
Threads 20 16.7 % 24 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 105 W 25 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
12 × 32 kB Instruction
12 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 10 × 256 kB
12 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 25 MB
1 × 30 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-6950X Xeon E5-2658 v3
Overall Score 57719 0 % 54130 6.2 %
Future Proof 53 % 0 % 50 % 5.7 %
Benchmark Score 11099 0 % 8585 22.7 %
Single Thread Score 2347.7 0 % 1726.4 26.5 %
Encrypting Data 5024.8 MB/s 74.7 % 19839 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 273.8 MB/s 7.9 % 297.3 MB/s 0 %
String objects sorting 35991 thousand/s 0 % 35021.2 thousand/s 2.7 %
Prime numbers generation 78.7 millions/s 42.4 % 136.6 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 63723.2 millions/s 29 % 89772.1 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 41132 millions/s 17.6 % 49895.4 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-6950X, Xeon E5-2658 v3.

Average frames per second Core i7-6950X Xeon E5-2658 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 126.8 FPS 116.0 FPS
High settings 202.8 FPS 185.7 FPS
Medium settings 253.5 FPS 232.1 FPS
Low settings 316.9 FPS 290.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 8.4 %

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 E5-2658 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 153.5 FPS 147.0 FPS
High settings 245.6 FPS 235.1 FPS
Medium settings 306.9 FPS 293.9 FPS
Low settings 383.7 FPS 367.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 4.2 %
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