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General information Core i9-7940X Xeon E5-1660
Launched Q3 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 3.1 GHz 6.1 % 3.3 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.3 GHz 0 % 3.9 GHz 9.3 %
Cores 14 0 % 6 57.1 %
Threads 28 0 % 12 57.1 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 130 W 21.2 %
Lithography 14 nm 56.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 14 × 32 kB Instruction
14 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 14 × 1 MB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 19.25 MB
1 × 15 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7940X Xeon E5-1660
Overall Score 64023 0 % 48281 24.6 %
Future Proof 60 % 0 % 31 % 48.3 %
Benchmark Score 16801 0 % 5434 67.7 %
Single Thread Score 2501 0 % 1792.4 28.3 %
Encrypting Data 9713.5 MB/s 0 % 2568.9 MB/s 73.6 %
Compressing Data 419.8 MB/s 0 % 137.6 MB/s 67.2 %
String objects sorting 54160.5 thousand/s 0 % 21031.9 thousand/s 61.2 %
Prime numbers generation 90.4 millions/s 0 % 41.7 millions/s 53.8 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 97177.2 millions/s 0 % 33099.2 millions/s 65.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 60631.6 millions/s 0 % 12257.3 millions/s 79.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7940X, Xeon E5-1660.

Average frames per second Core i9-7940X Xeon E5-1660
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.9 FPS 98.1 FPS
High settings 231.8 FPS 157.0 FPS
Medium settings 289.7 FPS 196.2 FPS
Low settings 362.2 FPS 245.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 32.3 %

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 i9-7940X Xeon E5-1660
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 163.3 FPS 135.6 FPS
High settings 261.3 FPS 217.0 FPS
Medium settings 326.6 FPS 271.2 FPS
Low settings 408.3 FPS 339.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 17 %
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