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General information Core i7-6900K Xeon E3-1270 v6
Launched Q2 2016 Q2 2017
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2011-3 FCLGA1151
Series Name Intel Core i7 Intel Xeon E3
Core Family Name Broadwell-E Kaby Lake-S
Clock 3.2 GHz 15.8 % 3.8 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 4.8 % 4.2 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 4 50 %
Threads 16 0 % 8 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 72 W 48.6 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 64 GB 50 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-6900K Xeon E3-1270 v6
Overall Score 55285 0 % 49054 11.3 %
Future Proof 53 % 10.2 % 59 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 9342 0 % 5790 38 %
Single Thread Score 2324 5.9 % 2469.1 0 %
Encrypting Data 4072.2 MB/s 0 % 3127.4 MB/s 23.2 %
Compressing Data 219.3 MB/s 0 % 122.4 MB/s 44.2 %
String objects sorting 28646.3 thousand/s 0 % 15817.4 thousand/s 44.8 %
Prime numbers generation 64 millions/s 0 % 30.8 millions/s 51.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 51062.8 millions/s 0 % 28328.2 millions/s 44.5 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 33190.3 millions/s 0 % 17304.2 millions/s 47.9 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-6900K, Xeon E3-1270 v6.

Average frames per second Core i7-6900K Xeon E3-1270 v6
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 118.9 FPS 100.4 FPS
High settings 190.3 FPS 160.7 FPS
Medium settings 237.8 FPS 200.8 FPS
Low settings 297.3 FPS 251.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 15.6 %

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 i7-6900K Xeon E3-1270 v6
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 147.9 FPS 137.0 FPS
High settings 236.7 FPS 219.1 FPS
Medium settings 295.8 FPS 273.9 FPS
Low settings 369.8 FPS 342.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 7.4 %
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