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General information Xeon E5-2640 Core i7-920
Launched Q2 2012 Q4 2008
Used in Server Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011 LGA1366
Series Name Intel Xeon E5 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Sandy Bridge-EP Bloomfield
Clock 2.5 GHz 7.4 % 2.7 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3 GHz 0 % 2.9 GHz 3.3 %
Cores 6 0 % 4 33.3 %
Threads 12 0 % 8 33.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 W 26.9 % 130 W 0 %
Lithography 32 nm 28.9 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 15 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Xeon E5-2640 Core i7-920
Overall Score 44972 0 % 36794 18.2 %
Future Proof 30 % 0 % 10 % 66.7 %
Benchmark Score 4090 0 % 1833 55.2 %
Single Thread Score 1358.8 0 % 1208.5 11.1 %
Encrypting Data 1907.6 MB/s 54.3 % 4176.7 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 104.6 MB/s 0 % 61.8 MB/s 40.9 %
String objects sorting 16028.9 thousand/s 0 % 8253.6 thousand/s 48.5 %
Prime numbers generation 33.2 millions/s 0 % 21.8 millions/s 34.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 24961.3 millions/s 0 % 15067 millions/s 39.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 9246.5 millions/s 0 % 6432.8 millions/s 30.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E5-2640, Core i7-920.

Average frames per second Xeon E5-2640 Core i7-920
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 88.2 FPS 64.0 FPS
High settings 141.2 FPS 102.3 FPS
Medium settings 176.5 FPS 127.9 FPS
Low settings 220.6 FPS 159.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 27.5 %

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 Xeon E5-2640 Core i7-920
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 129.7 FPS 115.2 FPS
High settings 207.4 FPS 184.3 FPS
Medium settings 259.3 FPS 230.4 FPS
Low settings 324.1 FPS 288.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 11.2 %
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