Core i7-5960X is a desktop processor from Intel released on 1 September 2014, and it is in active production status now. It belongs to Core i7 family and has a Haswell-E architecture. This processor is built on Intel Socket 2011-3, and uses Gen 2 PCI express connection. 22 nm process is used in production.
Processor has 8 cores and 16 threads, with the base frequency of 3 GHz. It has DDR4 memory support. As for the cache, it supports L1 64K (per core), L2 256K (per core) and L3 20MB (shared).
