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General information Xeon E5-2620 Core i7-940
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 GHz 31 % 2.9 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 2.5 GHz 21.9 % 3.2 GHz 0 %
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 E5-2620 Core i7-940
Overall Score 43004 0 % 37153 13.6 %
Future Proof 30 % 0 % 10 % 66.7 %
Benchmark Score 3420 0 % 1905 44.3 %
Single Thread Score 1100.1 16.6 % 1319.2 0 %
Encrypting Data 1596.1 MB/s 63.7 % 4394.3 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 86.7 MB/s 0 % 63 MB/s 27.4 %
String objects sorting 13204 thousand/s 0 % 8828.3 thousand/s 33.1 %
Prime numbers generation 30.1 millions/s 0 % 21.8 millions/s 27.6 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 20565.7 millions/s 0 % 16252 millions/s 21 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 7661.7 millions/s 0 % 6950.5 millions/s 9.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E5-2620, Core i7-940.

Average frames per second Xeon E5-2620 Core i7-940
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 82.4 FPS 65.0 FPS
High settings 131.8 FPS 104.1 FPS
Medium settings 164.8 FPS 130.1 FPS
Low settings 206.0 FPS 162.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 21.1 %

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 E5-2620 Core i7-940
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 126.3 FPS 116.0 FPS
High settings 202.1 FPS 185.7 FPS
Medium settings 252.6 FPS 232.1 FPS
Low settings 315.8 FPS 290.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 8.1 %
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