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General information Core i7-4960X Xeon E5-2687W
Launched Q1 2013 Q1 2012
Used in Desktop Server
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011 LGA2011
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Xeon E5
Core Family Name Ivy Bridge-E Sandy Bridge-EP
Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3.1 GHz 13.9 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.8 GHz 5 %
Cores 6 25 % 8 0 %
Threads 12 25 % 16 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 13.3 % 150 W 0 %
Lithography 22 nm 31.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 15 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-4960X Xeon E5-2687W
Overall Score 50664 0 % 50554 0.2 %
Future Proof 34 % 0 % 28 % 17.6 %
Benchmark Score 6589 0 % 6532 0.9 %
Single Thread Score 2084.1 0 % 1691.1 18.9 %
Encrypting Data 2986 MB/s 6.3 % 3188.2 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 162.7 MB/s 5.5 % 172.1 MB/s 0 %
String objects sorting 22898.9 thousand/s 9.9 % 25406.6 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 48.1 millions/s 3.1 % 49.7 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 37065 millions/s 10.3 % 41298.5 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 18737.1 millions/s 0 % 15552.7 millions/s 17 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-4960X, Xeon E5-2687W.

Average frames per second Core i7-4960X Xeon E5-2687W
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 104.7 FPS 104.4 FPS
High settings 167.6 FPS 167.0 FPS
Medium settings 209.5 FPS 208.8 FPS
Low settings 261.8 FPS 261.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.3 %

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 i7-4960X Xeon E5-2687W
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 139.6 FPS 139.4 FPS
High settings 223.3 FPS 223.0 FPS
Medium settings 279.1 FPS 278.8 FPS
Low settings 348.9 FPS 348.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.1 %
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