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General information Core i9-7900X Xeon E5-1660
Launched Q2 2017 Q3 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 3.3 GHz 0 % 3.3 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.5 GHz 0 % 3.9 GHz 13.3 %
Cores 10 0 % 6 40 %
Threads 20 0 % 12 40 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 130 W 7.1 %
Lithography 14 nm 56.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 10 × 1 MB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 13.75 MB
1 × 15 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7900X Xeon E5-1660
Overall Score 60828 0 % 48281 20.6 %
Future Proof 59 % 0 % 31 % 47.5 %
Benchmark Score 13690 0 % 5434 60.3 %
Single Thread Score 2586 0 % 1821.2 29.6 %
Encrypting Data 7513 MB/s 0 % 2579.2 MB/s 65.7 %
Compressing Data 317.7 MB/s 0 % 139.1 MB/s 56.2 %
String objects sorting 41053.1 thousand/s 0 % 20989.8 thousand/s 48.9 %
Prime numbers generation 76.4 millions/s 0 % 42.3 millions/s 44.6 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 72322.4 millions/s 0 % 33033.6 millions/s 54.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 44642.1 millions/s 0 % 12050.8 millions/s 73 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7900X, Xeon E5-1660.

Average frames per second Core i9-7900X Xeon E5-1660
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 135.4 FPS 98.1 FPS
High settings 216.7 FPS 157.0 FPS
Medium settings 270.8 FPS 196.2 FPS
Low settings 338.5 FPS 245.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 27.6 %

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 i9-7900X Xeon E5-1660
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 157.8 FPS 135.7 FPS
High settings 252.4 FPS 217.1 FPS
Medium settings 315.5 FPS 271.3 FPS
Low settings 394.4 FPS 339.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 14 %
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