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General information Core i7-4960X Xeon E5-2690
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 % 2.9 GHz 19.4 %
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 3.7 % 135 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 E5-2690
Overall Score 50542 0 % 50100 0.9 %
Future Proof 34 % 0 % 28 % 17.6 %
Benchmark Score 6525 0 % 6300 3.4 %
Single Thread Score 2086.2 0 % 1669.7 20 %
Encrypting Data 2995 MB/s 2.6 % 3074.4 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 162.6 MB/s 1.5 % 165 MB/s 0 %
String objects sorting 23060 thousand/s 8.6 % 25236.5 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 47.9 millions/s 2.9 % 49.3 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 37102.1 millions/s 5.5 % 39252.3 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 18570 millions/s 0 % 14592.7 millions/s 21.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-4960X, Xeon E5-2690.

Average frames per second Core i7-4960X Xeon E5-2690
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 104.8 FPS 103.2 FPS
High settings 167.7 FPS 165.1 FPS
Medium settings 209.6 FPS 206.4 FPS
Low settings 262.0 FPS 258.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 1.6 %

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 E5-2690
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 139.6 FPS 138.6 FPS
High settings 223.4 FPS 221.8 FPS
Medium settings 279.2 FPS 277.3 FPS
Low settings 349.0 FPS 346.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.7 %
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