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General information Core i7-4960X Xeon E5-1620
Launched Q1 2013 Q2 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 % 3.6 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.8 GHz 5 %
Cores 6 0 % 4 33.3 %
Threads 12 0 % 8 33.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 0 % 130 W 0 %
Lithography 22 nm 31.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 15 MB
1 × 10 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-4960X Xeon E5-1620
Overall Score 50542 0 % 44118 12.7 %
Future Proof 34 % 0 % 30 % 11.8 %
Benchmark Score 6525 0 % 3788 41.9 %
Single Thread Score 2086.2 0 % 1751.3 16.1 %
Encrypting Data 2995 MB/s 0 % 1761.3 MB/s 41.2 %
Compressing Data 162.6 MB/s 0 % 92.8 MB/s 42.9 %
String objects sorting 23060 thousand/s 0 % 14297.8 thousand/s 38 %
Prime numbers generation 47.9 millions/s 0 % 28.9 millions/s 39.6 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 37102.1 millions/s 0 % 21984.3 millions/s 40.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 18570 millions/s 0 % 8241.9 millions/s 55.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-4960X, Xeon E5-1620.

Average frames per second Core i7-4960X Xeon E5-1620
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 104.8 FPS 85.7 FPS
High settings 167.7 FPS 137.2 FPS
Medium settings 209.6 FPS 171.5 FPS
Low settings 262.0 FPS 214.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 18.2 %

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 E5-1620
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 139.6 FPS 128.3 FPS
High settings 223.4 FPS 205.3 FPS
Medium settings 279.2 FPS 256.6 FPS
Low settings 349.0 FPS 320.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 8.1 %
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