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General information Core i5-6500 FX-6120
Launched Q3 2015 Q2 2012
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA1151 AM3+
Series Name Intel Core i5 AMD FX
Core Family Name Skylake-S Zambezi
Clock 3.2 GHz 8.6 % 3.5 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.6 GHz 12.2 % 4.1 GHz 0 %
Cores 4 33.3 % 6 0 %
Threads 4 33.3 % 6 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 31.6 % 95 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 56.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
3 × 64 kB Instruction
6 × 16 kB Data
L2 Cache 4 × 256 kB
3 × 2 MB
L3 Cache 1 × 6 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Core i5-6500 FX-6120
Overall Score 43680 0 % 39816 8.8 %
Future Proof 49 % 0 % 30 % 38.8 %
Benchmark Score 3640 0 % 2513 31 %
Single Thread Score 2091 0 % 1400.6 33 %
Encrypting Data 1682.4 MB/s 0 % 1187.6 MB/s 29.4 %
Compressing Data 75.5 MB/s 0 % 64.2 MB/s 14.9 %
String objects sorting 9493.4 thousand/s 0 % 8716.7 thousand/s 8.2 %
Prime numbers generation 27.9 millions/s 0 % 22 millions/s 21.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 14550 millions/s 0 % 14204.7 millions/s 2.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12366.8 millions/s 0 % 7134.6 millions/s 42.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-6500, FX-6120.

Average frames per second Core i5-6500 FX-6120
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 84.4 FPS 73.0 FPS
High settings 135.1 FPS 116.8 FPS
Medium settings 168.9 FPS 145.9 FPS
Low settings 211.1 FPS 182.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.6 %

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 i5-6500 FX-6120
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 127.6 FPS 120.8 FPS
High settings 204.2 FPS 193.3 FPS
Medium settings 255.3 FPS 241.6 FPS
Low settings 319.1 FPS 302.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 5.4 %
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