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General information Core i9-7960X Xeon E3-1240 v5
Launched Q4 2017 Q4 2015
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 FCLGA1151
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Xeon E3
Core Family Name Skylake-X Skylake-H
Clock 2.8 GHz 20 % 3.5 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 0 % 3.9 GHz 7.1 %
Cores 16 0 % 4 75 %
Threads 32 0 % 8 75 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 80 W 51.5 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 64 GB 50 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 1 MB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 22 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7960X Xeon E3-1240 v5
Overall Score 65663 0 % 48063 26.8 %
Future Proof 62 % 0 % 50 % 19.4 %
Benchmark Score 18590 0 % 5336 71.3 %
Single Thread Score 2504 0 % 2308.8 7.8 %
Encrypting Data 11246 MB/s 0 % 2864.1 MB/s 74.5 %
Compressing Data 465.6 MB/s 0 % 112.3 MB/s 75.9 %
String objects sorting 59225.2 thousand/s 0 % 14746.5 thousand/s 75.1 %
Prime numbers generation 103.1 millions/s 0 % 28 millions/s 72.8 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 107478 millions/s 0 % 26275.4 millions/s 75.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 67168.1 millions/s 0 % 16259 millions/s 75.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7960X, Xeon E3-1240 v5.

Average frames per second Core i9-7960X Xeon E3-1240 v5
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 149.8 FPS 97.4 FPS
High settings 239.7 FPS 155.9 FPS
Medium settings 299.6 FPS 194.9 FPS
Low settings 374.5 FPS 243.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 34.9 %

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 E3-1240 v5
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 166.3 FPS 135.3 FPS
High settings 266.1 FPS 216.4 FPS
Medium settings 332.6 FPS 270.5 FPS
Low settings 415.7 FPS 338.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 18.7 %
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