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General information Core i7-4960X Core i5-9500
Launched Q1 2013 Q2 2019
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Ivy Bridge-E Coffee Lake Refresh
Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 16.7 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 9.1 % 4.4 GHz 0 %
Cores 6 0 % 6 0 %
Threads 12 0 % 6 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 0 % 65 W 50 %
Lithography 22 nm 0 % 14 nm 36.4 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 15 MB
1 × 9 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-4960X Core i5-9500
Overall Score 50540 0 % 50189 0.7 %
Future Proof 34 % 52.1 % 71 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 6525 0 % 6345 2.8 %
Single Thread Score 2061.2 19.7 % 2565.7 0 %
Encrypting Data 2971 MB/s 4.3 % 3104.2 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 162.3 MB/s 0 % 134.3 MB/s 17.2 %
String objects sorting 22806.9 thousand/s 0 % 17050.3 thousand/s 25.2 %
Prime numbers generation 48.4 millions/s 0 % 34.8 millions/s 28.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 37102.1 millions/s 0 % 27444.8 millions/s 26 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 18495.7 millions/s 22 % 23699.8 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-4960X, Core i5-9500.

Average frames per second Core i7-4960X Core i5-9500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 104.8 FPS 103.8 FPS
High settings 167.7 FPS 166.0 FPS
Medium settings 209.6 FPS 207.5 FPS
Low settings 262.0 FPS 259.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 1 %

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 Core i5-9500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 139.5 FPS 138.8 FPS
High settings 223.2 FPS 222.1 FPS
Medium settings 279.0 FPS 277.7 FPS
Low settings 348.7 FPS 347.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.5 %
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