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General information Core i7-3960X Athlon II X2 250
Launched Q4 2011 Q2 2009
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA2011 AM3
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme AMD Athlon II X2
Core Family Name Sandy Bridge-E Regor
Clock 3.3 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 9.1 %
Cores 6 0 % 2 66.7 %
Threads 12 0 % 2 83.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 0 % 65 W 50 %
Lithography 32 nm 28.9 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
2 × 64 kB Instruction
2 × 64 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
2 × 1 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-3960X Athlon II X2 250
Overall Score 48283 0 % 29294 39.3 %
Future Proof 27 % 0 % 13 % 51.9 %
Benchmark Score 5435 0 % 736 86.5 %
Single Thread Score 1792.6 0 % 1183.9 34 %
Encrypting Data 2557.3 MB/s 0 % 1672.9 MB/s 34.6 %
Compressing Data 137.6 MB/s 0 % 24.5 MB/s 82.2 %
String objects sorting 20838.9 thousand/s 0 % 3127 thousand/s 85 %
Prime numbers generation 41.7 millions/s 0 % 5 millions/s 88 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 32732.3 millions/s 0 % 3369.6 millions/s 89.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12213.6 millions/s 0 % 2561.9 millions/s 79 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-3960X, Athlon II X2 250.

Average frames per second Core i7-3960X Athlon II X2 250
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 98.1 FPS 41.9 FPS
High settings 157.0 FPS 67.0 FPS
Medium settings 196.2 FPS 83.8 FPS
Low settings 245.3 FPS 104.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 57.3 %

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 i7-3960X Athlon II X2 250
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 135.5 FPS 101.9 FPS
High settings 216.7 FPS 163.0 FPS
Medium settings 270.9 FPS 203.8 FPS
Low settings 338.6 FPS 254.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 24.8 %
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