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General information Core i7-4790T A8-3870K
Launched Q2 2014 Q4 2011
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA1150 FM1
Series Name Intel Core i7 AMD A8
Core Family Name Haswell Refresh Llano
Clock 2.7 GHz 10 % 3 GHz 0 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 8 0 % 4 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 W 55 % 100 W 0 %
Lithography 22 nm 31.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
4 × 64 kB Instruction
4 × 64 kB Data
L2 Cache 4 × 256 kB
4 × 1 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-4790T A8-3870K
Overall Score 45006 0 % 34928 22.4 %
Future Proof 42 % 0 % 27 % 35.7 %
Benchmark Score 4103 0 % 1488 63.7 %
Single Thread Score 2079.3 0 % 1202.2 42.2 %
Encrypting Data 1750.4 MB/s 48.1 % 3374.3 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 92 MB/s 0 % 51.2 MB/s 44.4 %
String objects sorting 13072 thousand/s 0 % 6339.5 thousand/s 51.5 %
Prime numbers generation 30.7 millions/s 0 % 10.1 millions/s 67.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 22447.2 millions/s 0 % 6862.7 millions/s 69.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 11201.3 millions/s 0 % 5315 millions/s 52.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-4790T, A8-3870K.

Average frames per second Core i7-4790T A8-3870K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 88.3 FPS 58.4 FPS
High settings 141.3 FPS 93.5 FPS
Medium settings 176.7 FPS 116.9 FPS
Low settings 220.8 FPS 146.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 33.8 %

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 i7-4790T A8-3870K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 129.6 FPS 111.9 FPS
High settings 207.4 FPS 179.0 FPS
Medium settings 259.3 FPS 223.7 FPS
Low settings 324.1 FPS 279.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.7 %
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