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General information Core i9-7940X Xeon E3-1280 v6
Launched Q3 2017 Q1 2017
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 FCLGA1151
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Xeon E3
Core Family Name Skylake-X Kaby Lake-S
Clock 3.1 GHz 20.5 % 3.9 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.3 GHz 0 % 4.2 GHz 2.3 %
Cores 14 0 % 4 71.4 %
Threads 28 0 % 8 71.4 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 72 W 56.4 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 64 GB 50 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 14 × 32 kB Instruction
14 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 14 × 1 MB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 19.25 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7940X Xeon E3-1280 v6
Overall Score 64023 0 % 49152 23.2 %
Future Proof 60 % 0 % 57 % 5 %
Benchmark Score 16801 0 % 5837 65.3 %
Single Thread Score 2501 0 % 2494 0.3 %
Encrypting Data 9713.5 MB/s 0 % 3206.8 MB/s 67 %
Compressing Data 419.8 MB/s 0 % 121.1 MB/s 71.2 %
String objects sorting 54160.5 thousand/s 0 % 15495 thousand/s 71.4 %
Prime numbers generation 90.4 millions/s 0 % 30.8 millions/s 65.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 97177.2 millions/s 0 % 28182.4 millions/s 71 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 60631.6 millions/s 0 % 17696.4 millions/s 70.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7940X, Xeon E3-1280 v6.

Average frames per second Core i9-7940X Xeon E3-1280 v6
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.9 FPS 100.7 FPS
High settings 231.8 FPS 161.1 FPS
Medium settings 289.7 FPS 201.4 FPS
Low settings 362.2 FPS 251.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 30.5 %

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 i9-7940X Xeon E3-1280 v6
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 163.3 FPS 137.1 FPS
High settings 261.3 FPS 219.4 FPS
Medium settings 326.6 FPS 274.3 FPS
Low settings 408.3 FPS 342.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 16 %
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