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General information Core i7-4960X Core i5-4590
Launched Q1 2013 Q2 2014
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011 LGA1150
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Ivy Bridge-E Haswell Refresh
Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3.3 GHz 8.3 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.7 GHz 7.5 %
Cores 6 0 % 4 33.3 %
Threads 12 0 % 4 66.7 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 0 % 84 W 35.4 %
Lithography 22 nm 0 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 15 MB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-4960X Core i5-4590
Overall Score 50542 0 % 43165 14.6 %
Future Proof 34 % 19 % 42 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 6525 0 % 3472 46.8 %
Single Thread Score 2086.2 0 % 2081.8 0.2 %
Encrypting Data 2995 MB/s 0 % 1344.7 MB/s 55.1 %
Compressing Data 162.6 MB/s 0 % 75.7 MB/s 53.5 %
String objects sorting 23060 thousand/s 0 % 10380 thousand/s 55 %
Prime numbers generation 47.9 millions/s 0 % 31.7 millions/s 33.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 37102.1 millions/s 0 % 16095.6 millions/s 56.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 18570 millions/s 0 % 12014.5 millions/s 35.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-4960X, Core i5-4590.

Average frames per second Core i7-4960X Core i5-4590
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 104.8 FPS 82.9 FPS
High settings 167.7 FPS 132.6 FPS
Medium settings 209.6 FPS 165.8 FPS
Low settings 262.0 FPS 207.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 20.9 %

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 i7-4960X Core i5-4590
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 139.6 FPS 126.6 FPS
High settings 223.4 FPS 202.6 FPS
Medium settings 279.2 FPS 253.3 FPS
Low settings 349.0 FPS 316.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 9.3 %
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