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General information Xeon E5-2697 v4 Core i7-6950X
Launched Q2 2016 Q2 2016
Used in Server Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2011-3 LGA2011-v3
Series Name Intel Xeon E5 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Broadwell-EP Broadwell-E
Clock 2.3 GHz 23.3 % 3 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.6 GHz 10 % 4 GHz 0 %
Cores 18 0 % 10 44.4 %
Threads 36 0 % 20 44.4 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 145 W 0 % 140 W 3.4 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 18 × 32 kB Instruction
18 × 32 kB Data
10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 18 × 256 kB
10 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 45 MB
1 × 25 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Xeon E5-2697 v4 Core i7-6950X
Overall Score 60769 0 % 57930 4.7 %
Future Proof 53 % 0 % 53 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 13638 0 % 11262 17.4 %
Single Thread Score 1993 14.8 % 2338.7 0 %
Encrypting Data 6414.7 MB/s 0 % 5070.2 MB/s 21 %
Compressing Data 360.9 MB/s 0 % 272.4 MB/s 24.5 %
String objects sorting 47487.1 thousand/s 0 % 35869.3 thousand/s 24.5 %
Prime numbers generation 96.1 millions/s 0 % 78.8 millions/s 18 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 85530.2 millions/s 0 % 63259.1 millions/s 26 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 55587.3 millions/s 0 % 40718.2 millions/s 26.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E5-2697 v4, Core i7-6950X.

Average frames per second Xeon E5-2697 v4 Core i7-6950X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 135.2 FPS 126.8 FPS
High settings 216.3 FPS 202.9 FPS
Medium settings 270.4 FPS 253.6 FPS
Low settings 338.0 FPS 317.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 6.2 %

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 Xeon E5-2697 v4 Core i7-6950X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 157.6 FPS 152.6 FPS
High settings 252.1 FPS 244.2 FPS
Medium settings 315.2 FPS 305.2 FPS
Low settings 394.0 FPS 381.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 3.2 %
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