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General information Core i9-7960X Xeon E3-1230 v5
Launched Q4 2017 Q1 2016
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 17.6 % 3.4 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 0 % 3.8 GHz 9.5 %
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 E3-1230 v5
Overall Score 65663 0 % 47659 27.4 %
Future Proof 62 % 0 % 52 % 16.1 %
Benchmark Score 18590 0 % 5159 72.2 %
Single Thread Score 2504 0 % 2218.4 11.4 %
Encrypting Data 11078.1 MB/s 0 % 2810.8 MB/s 74.6 %
Compressing Data 470.8 MB/s 0 % 108 MB/s 77.1 %
String objects sorting 59284.3 thousand/s 0 % 14202 thousand/s 76 %
Prime numbers generation 104.1 millions/s 0 % 27.9 millions/s 73.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 106833 millions/s 0 % 25468.2 millions/s 76.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 67369.2 millions/s 0 % 15427.5 millions/s 77.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7960X, Xeon E3-1230 v5.

Average frames per second Core i9-7960X Xeon E3-1230 v5
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 149.8 FPS 96.2 FPS
High settings 239.7 FPS 154.0 FPS
Medium settings 299.6 FPS 192.5 FPS
Low settings 374.5 FPS 240.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 35.8 %

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 E3-1230 v5
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 166.2 FPS 134.5 FPS
High settings 265.9 FPS 215.2 FPS
Medium settings 332.4 FPS 269.0 FPS
Low settings 415.5 FPS 336.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 19.1 %
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