The Intel Core i7-3960X is a 12 thread processor configuration with 3.3GHz clock speed and 15MB L3 cache. The Intel Core i7-3960X is a "Sandy Bridge" processor. Some of the prominent capabilities of the processor include SSE 4.2 + AVX + AES + Intel VT-x. This processor has been found on OpenBenchmarking.org since Q4'2011 and found in approximately 10,082 results on OpenBenchmarking.org.
Below is a generalized look at the performance across various test profiles and where relevant the different test profile options exposed for a high-level look at the performance compared to all available public test results on OpenBenchmarking.org. Of the 13 test profiles the overall rank was approximately in the 58th percentile.
processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 45 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3960X CPU @ 3.30GHz stepping : 6 microcode : 0x60b cpu MHz : 3301.000 cache size : 15360 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 12 core id : 0 cpu cores : 6 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 6600.14 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:
Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 12 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-11 Thread(s) per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 6 CPU socket(s): 1 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 45 Stepping: 6 CPU MHz: 1200.000 BogoMIPS: 6600.05 Virtualization: VT-x L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 256K L3 cache: 15360K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-11