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General information Core2 Duo E8500 Pentium G6950
Launched Q4 2008 Q1 2010
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA775 LGA1156
Series Name Intel Core 2 Duo Intel Pentium
Core Family Name Wolfdale Clarkdale
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 11 % 73 W 0 %
Lithography 45 nm 0 % 32 nm 28.9 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 1 × 6 MB
2 × 256 kB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Core2 Duo E8500 Pentium G6950
Overall Score 30055 0 % 29911 0.5 %
Future Proof 10 % 41.2 % 17 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 816 0 % 800 2 %
Single Thread Score 1323.6 0 % 1101.2 16.8 %
Encrypting Data 1875.6 MB/s 0 % 1827.1 MB/s 2.6 %
Compressing Data 25.8 MB/s 0 % 21.9 MB/s 15.2 %
String objects sorting 3606.9 thousand/s 0 % 3047.8 thousand/s 15.5 %
Prime numbers generation 10.1 millions/s 0 % 8 millions/s 21 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 5457.7 millions/s 0 % 4747.3 millions/s 13 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 3284.6 millions/s 0 % 3036.9 millions/s 7.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core2 Duo E8500, Pentium G6950.

Average frames per second Core2 Duo E8500 Pentium G6950
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 44.1 FPS 43.7 FPS
High settings 70.5 FPS 69.9 FPS
Medium settings 88.1 FPS 87.3 FPS
Low settings 110.1 FPS 109.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.9 %

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 Pentium G6950
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 103.5 FPS 103.2 FPS
High settings 165.5 FPS 165.1 FPS
Medium settings 206.9 FPS 206.4 FPS
Low settings 258.7 FPS 258.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.2 %
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