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General information Core i7-940 Phenom II X4 840
Launched Q4 2008 Q1 2011
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA1366 AM2+
Series Name Intel Core i7 AMD Phenom II X4
Core Family Name Bloomfield Deneb
Clock 2.9 GHz 9.4 % 3.2 GHz 0 %
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
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-940 Phenom II X4 840
Overall Score 37153 0 % 35286 5 %
Future Proof 10 % 56.5 % 23 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 1905 0 % 1550 18.6 %
Single Thread Score 1306.1 0 % 1302.9 0.2 %
Encrypting Data 4311.6 MB/s 0 % 3575.7 MB/s 17.1 %
Compressing Data 63.7 MB/s 0 % 54.6 MB/s 14.2 %
String objects sorting 8828.3 thousand/s 0 % 6978 thousand/s 21 %
Prime numbers generation 22 millions/s 0 % 9 millions/s 59.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 16252 millions/s 0 % 7634.5 millions/s 53 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 6867.6 millions/s 0 % 5626.6 millions/s 18.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-940, Phenom II X4 840.

Average frames per second Core i7-940 Phenom II X4 840
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 65.1 FPS 59.5 FPS
High settings 104.2 FPS 95.2 FPS
Medium settings 130.2 FPS 119.0 FPS
Low settings 162.8 FPS 148.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 8.6 %

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 i7-940 Phenom II X4 840
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 116.1 FPS 112.8 FPS
High settings 185.7 FPS 180.4 FPS
Medium settings 232.1 FPS 225.6 FPS
Low settings 290.2 FPS 281.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 2.8 %
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