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General information Core2 Duo E8500 Athlon II X2 240
Launched Q4 2008 Q3 2009
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA775 AM3
Series Name Intel Core 2 Duo AMD Athlon II X2
Core Family Name Wolfdale Regor
Clock 3.2 GHz 0 % 2.8 GHz 12.5 %
Cores 2 0 % 2 0 %
Threads 2 0 % 2 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 0 % 65 W 0 %
Lithography 45 nm 0 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
2 × 64 kB Instruction
2 × 64 kB Data
L2 Cache 1 × 6 MB
2 × 1 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Core2 Duo E8500 Athlon II X2 240
Overall Score 30055 0 % 28594 4.9 %
Future Proof 10 % 28.6 % 14 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 816 0 % 669 18 %
Single Thread Score 1310.4 0 % 1070.5 18.3 %
Encrypting Data 1868.5 MB/s 0 % 1534 MB/s 17.9 %
Compressing Data 26 MB/s 0 % 22.1 MB/s 14.7 %
String objects sorting 3643.1 thousand/s 0 % 2868.7 thousand/s 21.3 %
Prime numbers generation 10.1 millions/s 0 % 5 millions/s 49.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 5354.9 millions/s 0 % 2964.1 millions/s 44.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 3287.8 millions/s 0 % 2369.9 millions/s 27.9 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core2 Duo E8500, Athlon II X2 240.

Average frames per second Core2 Duo E8500 Athlon II X2 240
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 44.1 FPS 40.2 FPS
High settings 70.6 FPS 64.3 FPS
Medium settings 88.2 FPS 80.3 FPS
Low settings 110.2 FPS 100.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 8.9 %

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 Core2 Duo E8500 Athlon II X2 240
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 103.6 FPS 101.0 FPS
High settings 165.7 FPS 161.6 FPS
Medium settings 207.1 FPS 202.0 FPS
Low settings 258.9 FPS 252.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 2.5 %
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