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General information Core i9-7960X Xeon E5-2660 v2
Launched Q4 2017 Q1 2014
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 LGA2011
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Xeon E5
Core Family Name Skylake-X Ivy Bridge-EP
Clock 2.8 GHz 0 % 2.2 GHz 21.4 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 28.6 %
Cores 16 0 % 10 37.5 %
Threads 32 0 % 20 37.5 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 95 W 42.4 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 1 MB
10 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 22 MB
1 × 25 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7960X Xeon E5-2660 v2
Overall Score 65663 0 % 51078 22.2 %
Future Proof 62 % 0 % 40 % 35.5 %
Benchmark Score 18590 0 % 6807 63.4 %
Single Thread Score 2504 0 % 1511 39.7 %
Encrypting Data 11078.1 MB/s 0 % 3275 MB/s 70.4 %
Compressing Data 470.8 MB/s 0 % 182.3 MB/s 61.3 %
String objects sorting 59284.3 thousand/s 0 % 25022.7 thousand/s 57.8 %
Prime numbers generation 104.1 millions/s 0 % 50.9 millions/s 51.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 106833 millions/s 0 % 40752.7 millions/s 61.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 67369.2 millions/s 0 % 20633.5 millions/s 69.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7960X, Xeon E5-2660 v2.

Average frames per second Core i9-7960X Xeon E5-2660 v2
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 149.8 FPS 106.4 FPS
High settings 239.7 FPS 170.3 FPS
Medium settings 299.6 FPS 212.9 FPS
Low settings 374.5 FPS 266.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 28.9 %

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 E5-2660 v2
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 166.2 FPS 140.5 FPS
High settings 265.9 FPS 224.9 FPS
Medium settings 332.4 FPS 281.1 FPS
Low settings 415.5 FPS 351.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 15.4 %
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