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General information Core i5-4590 Core2 Quad Q9400
Launched Q2 2014 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1150 LGA775
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Core 2 Quad
Core Family Name Haswell Refresh Yorkfield
Clock 3.3 GHz 0 % 2.7 GHz 18.2 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 4 0 % 4 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 84 W 11.6 % 95 W 0 %
Lithography 22 nm 51.1 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 4 × 256 kB
2 × 3 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Core i5-4590 Core2 Quad Q9400
Overall Score 43164 0 % 34192 20.8 %
Future Proof 42 % 0 % 10 % 76.2 %
Benchmark Score 3471 0 % 1367 60.6 %
Single Thread Score 2066.1 0 % 1142.7 44.7 %
Encrypting Data 1332.7 MB/s 57.4 % 3130.4 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 74.5 MB/s 0 % 45.2 MB/s 39.3 %
String objects sorting 10327.3 thousand/s 0 % 6085.5 thousand/s 41.1 %
Prime numbers generation 31.8 millions/s 0 % 8.9 millions/s 71.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 15824.4 millions/s 0 % 10102.2 millions/s 36.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12051.7 millions/s 0 % 5608.4 millions/s 53.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-4590, Core2 Quad Q9400.

Average frames per second Core i5-4590 Core2 Quad Q9400
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 82.9 FPS 56.3 FPS
High settings 132.6 FPS 90.1 FPS
Medium settings 165.8 FPS 112.6 FPS
Low settings 207.2 FPS 140.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 32.1 %

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 i5-4590 Core2 Quad Q9400
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 126.6 FPS 110.8 FPS
High settings 202.6 FPS 177.3 FPS
Medium settings 253.3 FPS 221.7 FPS
Low settings 316.6 FPS 277.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 12.5 %
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