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General information Core i7-6950X Core i7-960
Launched Q2 2016 Q4 2009
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 LGA1366
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Broadwell-E Bloomfield
Clock 3 GHz 6.3 % 3.2 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 12.5 %
Cores 10 0 % 4 60 %
Threads 20 0 % 8 60 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 130 W 7.1 %
Lithography 14 nm 68.9 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 10 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 25 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-6950X Core i7-960
Overall Score 57930 0 % 38314 33.9 %
Future Proof 53 % 0 % 15 % 71.7 %
Benchmark Score 11262 0 % 2155 80.9 %
Single Thread Score 2345.7 0 % 1458 37.8 %
Encrypting Data 5070.2 MB/s 0 % 4949.4 MB/s 2.4 %
Compressing Data 272.4 MB/s 0 % 72.4 MB/s 73.4 %
String objects sorting 35691.2 thousand/s 0 % 9893 thousand/s 72.3 %
Prime numbers generation 78.4 millions/s 0 % 22.9 millions/s 70.8 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 63259.1 millions/s 0 % 18020 millions/s 71.5 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 41416.7 millions/s 0 % 7753.9 millions/s 81.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-6950X, Core i7-960.

Average frames per second Core i7-6950X Core i7-960
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 126.8 FPS 68.5 FPS
High settings 202.9 FPS 109.7 FPS
Medium settings 253.6 FPS 137.1 FPS
Low settings 317.0 FPS 171.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 45.9 %

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 i7-6950X Core i7-960
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.6 FPS 118.0 FPS
High settings 244.2 FPS 188.8 FPS
Medium settings 305.2 FPS 236.0 FPS
Low settings 381.5 FPS 295.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 22.7 %
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