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General information Core i7-5960X FX-8150
Launched Q3 2014 Q3 2011
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA2011-v3 AM3+
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme AMD FX
Core Family Name Haswell-E Zambezi
Clock 3 GHz 16.7 % 3.6 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 16.7 % 4.2 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 8 0 %
Threads 16 0 % 8 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 125 W 10.7 %
Lithography 22 nm 31.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
4 × 64 kB Data
8 × 16 kB Instruction
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
8 × 1 MB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-5960X FX-8150
Overall Score 53636 0 % 42943 19.9 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 26 % 39.5 %
Benchmark Score 8276 0 % 3401 58.9 %
Single Thread Score 1986 0 % 1438.3 27.6 %
Encrypting Data 3738.9 MB/s 0 % 1647 MB/s 55.9 %
Compressing Data 194.8 MB/s 0 % 87.1 MB/s 55.3 %
String objects sorting 27868.6 thousand/s 0 % 11928.7 thousand/s 57.2 %
Prime numbers generation 61.8 millions/s 0 % 27.9 millions/s 54.8 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47369.1 millions/s 0 % 19891.1 millions/s 58 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23739.7 millions/s 0 % 9869.4 millions/s 58.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, FX-8150.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X FX-8150
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 114.0 FPS 82.2 FPS
High settings 182.5 FPS 131.5 FPS
Medium settings 228.1 FPS 164.4 FPS
Low settings 285.1 FPS 205.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 27.9 %

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 i7-5960X FX-8150
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.0 FPS 126.2 FPS
High settings 232.0 FPS 201.9 FPS
Medium settings 290.0 FPS 252.3 FPS
Low settings 362.6 FPS 315.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 13 %
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