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General information Core i9-7960X Xeon E5-2670
Launched Q4 2017 Q1 2012
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 LGA2011
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Xeon E5
Core Family Name Skylake-X Sandy Bridge-EP
Clock 2.8 GHz 0 % 2.6 GHz 7.1 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 0 % 3.3 GHz 21.4 %
Cores 16 0 % 8 50 %
Threads 32 0 % 16 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 115 W 30.3 %
Lithography 14 nm 56.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 1 MB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 22 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7960X Xeon E5-2670
Overall Score 65663 0 % 49050 25.3 %
Future Proof 62 % 0 % 28 % 54.8 %
Benchmark Score 18590 0 % 5788 68.9 %
Single Thread Score 2504 0 % 1479.8 40.9 %
Encrypting Data 11078.1 MB/s 0 % 2833.9 MB/s 74.4 %
Compressing Data 470.8 MB/s 0 % 151.9 MB/s 67.7 %
String objects sorting 59284.3 thousand/s 0 % 23141.2 thousand/s 61 %
Prime numbers generation 104.1 millions/s 0 % 45.7 millions/s 56.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 106833 millions/s 0 % 36365.4 millions/s 66 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 67369.2 millions/s 0 % 13366.8 millions/s 80.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7960X, Xeon E5-2670.

Average frames per second Core i9-7960X Xeon E5-2670
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 149.8 FPS 100.4 FPS
High settings 239.7 FPS 160.7 FPS
Medium settings 299.6 FPS 200.8 FPS
Low settings 374.5 FPS 251.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 33 %

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 i9-7960X Xeon E5-2670
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 166.2 FPS 136.9 FPS
High settings 265.9 FPS 219.1 FPS
Medium settings 332.4 FPS 273.9 FPS
Low settings 415.5 FPS 342.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 17.6 %
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