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General information Xeon E5-2690 Core i7-920
Launched Q1 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 2.9 GHz 0 % 2.7 GHz 6.9 %
Turbo Clock 3.8 GHz 0 % 2.9 GHz 23.7 %
Cores 8 0 % 4 50 %
Threads 16 0 % 8 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 135 W 0 % 130 W 3.7 %
Lithography 32 nm 28.9 % 45 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 Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Xeon E5-2690 Core i7-920
Overall Score 50099 0 % 36791 26.6 %
Future Proof 28 % 0 % 10 % 64.3 %
Benchmark Score 6300 0 % 1832 70.9 %
Single Thread Score 1656.4 0 % 1213.6 26.7 %
Encrypting Data 3080.5 MB/s 26.2 % 4171.4 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 164.8 MB/s 0 % 60.7 MB/s 63.1 %
String objects sorting 24884.6 thousand/s 0 % 8405.7 thousand/s 66.2 %
Prime numbers generation 49.3 millions/s 0 % 21.8 millions/s 55.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 39370.9 millions/s 0 % 15064 millions/s 61.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 14680.7 millions/s 0 % 6430.8 millions/s 56.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E5-2690, Core i7-920.

Average frames per second Xeon E5-2690 Core i7-920
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 103.5 FPS 64.0 FPS
High settings 165.6 FPS 102.5 FPS
Medium settings 207.0 FPS 128.1 FPS
Low settings 258.7 FPS 160.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 38.1 %

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 E5-2690 Core i7-920
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 138.9 FPS 115.4 FPS
High settings 222.2 FPS 184.7 FPS
Medium settings 277.7 FPS 230.8 FPS
Low settings 347.1 FPS 288.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 16.9 %
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