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General information Core i7-990X Athlon II X3 450
Launched Q1 2011 Q4 2010
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA1366 AM3
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme AMD Athlon II X3
Core Family Name Gulftown Rana
Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 8.6 %
Cores 6 0 % 3 50 %
Threads 12 0 % 3 75 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 0 % 95 W 26.9 %
Lithography 32 nm 28.9 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
3 × 64 kB Instruction
3 × 64 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
3 × 512 kB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-990X Athlon II X3 450
Overall Score 46297 0 % 32994 28.7 %
Future Proof 23 % 0 % 21 % 8.7 %
Benchmark Score 4594 0 % 1185 74.2 %
Single Thread Score 1566.4 0 % 1290.2 17.6 %
Encrypting Data 2642 MB/s 3.2 % 2730.1 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 119.6 MB/s 0 % 40.2 MB/s 66.4 %
String objects sorting 16247.6 thousand/s 0 % 5226 thousand/s 67.8 %
Prime numbers generation 33 millions/s 0 % 7 millions/s 78.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 29651.3 millions/s 0 % 5588 millions/s 81.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12479.9 millions/s 0 % 4216.6 millions/s 66.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-990X, Athlon II X3 450.

Average frames per second Core i7-990X Athlon II X3 450
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 92.2 FPS 52.8 FPS
High settings 147.5 FPS 84.4 FPS
Medium settings 184.4 FPS 105.6 FPS
Low settings 230.5 FPS 131.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 42.8 %

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 i7-990X Athlon II X3 450
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 132.0 FPS 108.7 FPS
High settings 211.2 FPS 173.8 FPS
Medium settings 264.0 FPS 217.3 FPS
Low settings 330.1 FPS 271.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 17.7 %
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