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General information Core i5-6600K FX-8120
Launched Q3 2015 Q4 2011
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket FCLGA1151 AM3+
Series Name Intel Core i5 AMD FX
Core Family Name Skylake-S Zambezi
Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 3.1 GHz 11.4 %
Turbo Clock 3.9 GHz 2.5 % 4 GHz 0 %
Cores 4 50 % 8 0 %
Threads 4 50 % 8 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 91 W 27.2 % 125 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 56.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
4 × 64 kB Data
8 × 16 kB Instruction
L2 Cache 4 × 256 kB
8 × 1 MB
L3 Cache 1 × 6 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Core i5-6600K FX-8120
Overall Score 44965 0 % 41629 7.4 %
Future Proof 49 % 0 % 27 % 44.9 %
Benchmark Score 4088 0 % 3003 26.5 %
Single Thread Score 2347.9 0 % 1326.7 43.5 %
Encrypting Data 1852.1 MB/s 0 % 1450.3 MB/s 21.7 %
Compressing Data 84.3 MB/s 0 % 76.2 MB/s 9.6 %
String objects sorting 10621.7 thousand/s 0 % 10301 thousand/s 3 %
Prime numbers generation 30.8 millions/s 0 % 25.2 millions/s 18 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 16567.5 millions/s 5.9 % 17601.1 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 14214.8 millions/s 0 % 8712 millions/s 38.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-6600K, FX-8120.

Average frames per second Core i5-6600K FX-8120
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 88.2 FPS 78.3 FPS
High settings 141.1 FPS 125.3 FPS
Medium settings 176.4 FPS 156.7 FPS
Low settings 220.5 FPS 195.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 11.2 %

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 i5-6600K FX-8120
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 129.8 FPS 124.0 FPS
High settings 207.7 FPS 198.3 FPS
Medium settings 259.6 FPS 247.9 FPS
Low settings 324.5 FPS 309.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 4.5 %
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