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General information Core i7-5960X Phenom II X4 945
Launched Q3 2014 Q2 2009
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA2011-v3 AM3
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme AMD Phenom II X4
Core Family Name Haswell-E Deneb
Clock 3 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 4 50 %
Threads 16 0 % 4 75 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 125 W 10.7 %
Lithography 22 nm 51.1 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
4 × 64 kB Instruction
4 × 64 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
4 × 512 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-5960X Phenom II X4 945
Overall Score 53561 0 % 35224 34.2 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 13 % 69.8 %
Benchmark Score 8230 0 % 1539 81.3 %
Single Thread Score 1992 0 % 1226.8 38.4 %
Encrypting Data 3720.9 MB/s 0 % 3485.8 MB/s 6.3 %
Compressing Data 193.2 MB/s 0 % 51.8 MB/s 73.2 %
String objects sorting 27835.9 thousand/s 0 % 6503.3 thousand/s 76.6 %
Prime numbers generation 60.8 millions/s 0 % 14 millions/s 77 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47753.8 millions/s 0 % 7078.6 millions/s 85.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23831.8 millions/s 0 % 5288.8 millions/s 77.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Phenom II X4 945.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Phenom II X4 945
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 113.8 FPS 59.3 FPS
High settings 182.1 FPS 94.9 FPS
Medium settings 227.6 FPS 118.7 FPS
Low settings 284.5 FPS 148.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 47.9 %

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 Core i7-5960X Phenom II X4 945
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.9 FPS 112.5 FPS
High settings 231.8 FPS 179.9 FPS
Medium settings 289.8 FPS 224.9 FPS
Low settings 362.2 FPS 281.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 22.4 %
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