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General information Xeon E3-1270 V2 Core i7-960
Launched Q3 2012 Q4 2009
Used in Server Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1155 LGA1366
Series Name Intel Xeon E3 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Ivy Bridge Bloomfield
Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 8.6 %
Turbo Clock 3.9 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 10.3 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 8 0 % 8 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 69 W 46.9 % 130 W 0 %
Lithography 22 nm 51.1 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 4 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 8 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Xeon E3-1270 V2 Core i7-960
Overall Score 45245 0 % 38314 15.3 %
Future Proof 31 % 0 % 15 % 51.6 %
Benchmark Score 4191 0 % 2155 48.6 %
Single Thread Score 2086.2 0 % 1466.8 29.7 %
Encrypting Data 1884.8 MB/s 61.7 % 4915.7 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 103.7 MB/s 0 % 71.9 MB/s 30.6 %
String objects sorting 14273.4 thousand/s 0 % 9873.2 thousand/s 30.8 %
Prime numbers generation 30.2 millions/s 0 % 23 millions/s 23.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 22951.7 millions/s 0 % 18182.2 millions/s 20.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 11664 millions/s 0 % 7769.3 millions/s 33.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E3-1270 V2, Core i7-960.

Average frames per second Xeon E3-1270 V2 Core i7-960
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 89.1 FPS 68.5 FPS
High settings 142.6 FPS 109.7 FPS
Medium settings 178.3 FPS 137.1 FPS
Low settings 222.8 FPS 171.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 23.1 %

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 E3-1270 V2 Core i7-960
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 130.3 FPS 118.1 FPS
High settings 208.5 FPS 188.9 FPS
Medium settings 260.6 FPS 236.2 FPS
Low settings 325.7 FPS 295.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 9.4 %
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