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General information Core i7-5930K Core2 Duo E8500
Launched Q3 2014 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 LGA775
Series Name Intel Core i7 Intel Core 2 Duo
Core Family Name Haswell-E Wolfdale
Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 8.6 %
Cores 6 0 % 2 66.7 %
Threads 12 0 % 2 83.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 65 W 53.6 %
Lithography 22 nm 51.1 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-5930K Core2 Duo E8500
Overall Score 50833 0 % 30055 40.9 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 10 % 76.7 %
Benchmark Score 6677 0 % 816 87.8 %
Single Thread Score 2060.3 0 % 1321 35.9 %
Encrypting Data 2903.5 MB/s 0 % 1875.9 MB/s 35.4 %
Compressing Data 152.1 MB/s 0 % 25.8 MB/s 83 %
String objects sorting 21976.8 thousand/s 0 % 3614.1 thousand/s 83.6 %
Prime numbers generation 47.6 millions/s 0 % 10 millions/s 79 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 37591.7 millions/s 0 % 5387.4 millions/s 85.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 18849.6 millions/s 0 % 3268.2 millions/s 82.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5930K, Core2 Duo E8500.

Average frames per second Core i7-5930K Core2 Duo E8500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 105.7 FPS 44.1 FPS
High settings 169.1 FPS 70.5 FPS
Medium settings 211.4 FPS 88.1 FPS
Low settings 264.2 FPS 110.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 58.3 %

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 i7-5930K Core2 Duo E8500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 140.0 FPS 103.3 FPS
High settings 224.0 FPS 165.2 FPS
Medium settings 280.0 FPS 206.5 FPS
Low settings 350.0 FPS 258.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 26.2 %
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