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General information Core2 Duo E8500 Athlon II X2 255
Launched Q4 2008 Q1 2010
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA775 AM3
Series Name Intel Core 2 Duo AMD Athlon II X2
Core Family Name Wolfdale Regor
Clock 3.2 GHz 0 % 3.1 GHz 3.1 %
Cores 2 0 % 2 0 %
Threads 2 0 % 2 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 0 % 65 W 0 %
Lithography 45 nm 0 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
2 × 64 kB Instruction
2 × 64 kB Data
L2 Cache 1 × 6 MB
2 × 1 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Core2 Duo E8500 Athlon II X2 255
Overall Score 30110 0 % 29563 1.8 %
Future Proof 10 % 41.2 % 17 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 822 0 % 764 7.1 %
Single Thread Score 1306.8 0 % 1238.9 5.2 %
Encrypting Data 1764.4 MB/s 0 % 1642.9 MB/s 6.9 %
Compressing Data 26 MB/s 0 % 25.7 MB/s 1.2 %
String objects sorting 3612.1 thousand/s 0 % 3299.9 thousand/s 8.6 %
Prime numbers generation 9.9 millions/s 0 % 6 millions/s 40 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 5407.8 millions/s 0 % 3490.1 millions/s 35.5 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 3241.3 millions/s 0 % 2498 millions/s 22.9 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core2 Duo E8500, Athlon II X2 255.

Average frames per second Core2 Duo E8500 Athlon II X2 255
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 44.0 FPS 42.4 FPS
High settings 70.3 FPS 67.9 FPS
Medium settings 87.9 FPS 84.8 FPS
Low settings 109.9 FPS 106.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 3.5 %

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 Athlon II X2 255
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 103.3 FPS 102.4 FPS
High settings 165.3 FPS 163.8 FPS
Medium settings 206.6 FPS 204.7 FPS
Low settings 258.2 FPS 255.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.9 %
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