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General information Core i7-3970X Athlon II 160u
Launched Q1 2012 Q2 2010
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA2011 AM3
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme AMD Athlon II
Core Family Name Sandy Bridge-E Sargas
Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 1.8 GHz 48.6 %
Cores 6 0 % 1 83.3 %
Threads 12 0 % 1 91.7 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 W 0 % 20 W 86.7 %
Lithography 32 nm 28.9 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
1 × 64 kB Instruction
1 × 64 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
1 × 1 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-3970X Athlon II 160u
Overall Score 48476 0 % 21934 54.8 %
Future Proof 28 % 0 % 18 % 35.7 %
Benchmark Score 5522 0 % 231 95.8 %
Single Thread Score 1853.7 0 % 712 61.6 %
Encrypting Data 2707.7 MB/s 0 % 522.7 MB/s 80.7 %
Compressing Data 143 MB/s 0 % 8 MB/s 94.4 %
String objects sorting 21356.2 thousand/s 0 % 913.3 thousand/s 95.7 %
Prime numbers generation 42 millions/s 0 % 3.7 millions/s 91.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 32272.2 millions/s 0 % 2397.1 millions/s 92.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12618.1 millions/s 0 % 1331.1 millions/s 89.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-3970X, Athlon II 160u.

Average frames per second Core i7-3970X Athlon II 160u
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 98.7 FPS 28.4 FPS
High settings 157.9 FPS 45.5 FPS
Medium settings 197.4 FPS 56.9 FPS
Low settings 246.7 FPS 71.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 71.2 %

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 i7-3970X Athlon II 160u
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 135.8 FPS 89.0 FPS
High settings 217.3 FPS 142.4 FPS
Medium settings 271.6 FPS 178.0 FPS
Low settings 339.5 FPS 222.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 34.5 %
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