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General information Core i7-940 Phenom II X4 820
Launched Q4 2008 Q4 2009
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA1366 AM3
Series Name Intel Core i7 AMD Phenom II X4
Core Family Name Bloomfield Deneb
Clock 2.9 GHz 0 % 2.8 GHz 3.4 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 8 0 % 4 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 0 % 95 W 26.9 %
Lithography 45 nm 0 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
4 × 64 kB Instruction
4 × 64 kB Data
L2 Cache 4 × 256 kB
4 × 512 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 8 MB
1 × 4 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-940 Phenom II X4 820
Overall Score 37153 0 % 34078 8.3 %
Future Proof 10 % 33.3 % 15 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 1905 0 % 1349 29.2 %
Single Thread Score 1320.5 0 % 1119 15.3 %
Encrypting Data 4342.1 MB/s 0 % 3110.5 MB/s 28.4 %
Compressing Data 63.4 MB/s 0 % 45.4 MB/s 28.4 %
String objects sorting 8810.6 thousand/s 0 % 5905.2 thousand/s 33 %
Prime numbers generation 22 millions/s 0 % 11.1 millions/s 49.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 16219.5 millions/s 0 % 6397.9 millions/s 60.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 6909 millions/s 0 % 4619.5 millions/s 33.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-940, Phenom II X4 820.

Average frames per second Core i7-940 Phenom II X4 820
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 65.0 FPS 56.0 FPS
High settings 104.1 FPS 89.5 FPS
Medium settings 130.1 FPS 111.9 FPS
Low settings 162.6 FPS 139.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 14 %

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 i7-940 Phenom II X4 820
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 116.0 FPS 110.6 FPS
High settings 185.7 FPS 176.9 FPS
Medium settings 232.1 FPS 221.2 FPS
Low settings 290.1 FPS 276.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 4.7 %
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