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General information Core i7-6900K Xeon E3-1270 v3
Launched Q2 2016 Q2 2013
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2011-3 LGA1150
Series Name Intel Core i7 Intel Xeon E3
Core Family Name Broadwell-E Haswell
Clock 3.2 GHz 8.6 % 3.5 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.9 GHz 2.5 %
Cores 8 0 % 4 50 %
Threads 16 0 % 8 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 80 W 42.9 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 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 v3
Overall Score 55285 0 % 46594 15.7 %
Future Proof 53 % 0 % 36 % 32.1 %
Benchmark Score 9342 0 % 4713 49.6 %
Single Thread Score 2314.6 0 % 2175.2 6 %
Encrypting Data 4068.2 MB/s 0 % 2045.6 MB/s 49.7 %
Compressing Data 220 MB/s 0 % 106.7 MB/s 51.5 %
String objects sorting 28388.2 thousand/s 0 % 14912.8 thousand/s 47.5 %
Prime numbers generation 64.4 millions/s 0 % 32.7 millions/s 49.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 51627.9 millions/s 0 % 25918.2 millions/s 49.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 33458 millions/s 0 % 12776.9 millions/s 61.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-6900K, Xeon E3-1270 v3.

Average frames per second Core i7-6900K Xeon E3-1270 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 118.9 FPS 93.1 FPS
High settings 190.3 FPS 149.0 FPS
Medium settings 237.8 FPS 186.2 FPS
Low settings 297.3 FPS 232.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 21.7 %

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 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 148.0 FPS 132.7 FPS
High settings 236.8 FPS 212.3 FPS
Medium settings 296.0 FPS 265.4 FPS
Low settings 370.0 FPS 331.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 10.3 %
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