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General information Core i7-3970X Pentium G3240
Launched Q1 2012 Q2 2014
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011 FCLGA1150
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Pentium
Core Family Name Sandy Bridge-E Haswell Refresh
Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 3.1 GHz 11.4 %
Cores 6 0 % 2 66.7 %
Threads 12 0 % 2 83.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 W 0 % 53 W 64.7 %
Lithography 32 nm 0 % 22 nm 31.3 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
2 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 15 MB
1 × 3 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-3970X Pentium G3240
Overall Score 48362 0 % 33457 30.8 %
Future Proof 28 % 33.3 % 42 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 5470 0 % 1253 77.1 %
Single Thread Score 1847.4 0 % 1748.8 5.3 %
Encrypting Data 2674.6 MB/s 7.4 % 2886.9 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 145.1 MB/s 0 % 32.1 MB/s 77.9 %
String objects sorting 21359.2 thousand/s 0 % 4489.4 thousand/s 79 %
Prime numbers generation 40 millions/s 0 % 14 millions/s 65 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 31824 millions/s 0 % 6731.8 millions/s 78.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12698 millions/s 0 % 5256.7 millions/s 58.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-3970X, Pentium G3240.

Average frames per second Core i7-3970X Pentium G3240
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 98.3 FPS 54.2 FPS
High settings 157.3 FPS 86.7 FPS
Medium settings 196.7 FPS 108.3 FPS
Low settings 245.9 FPS 135.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 44.9 %

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 i7-3970X Pentium G3240
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 135.9 FPS 109.5 FPS
High settings 217.4 FPS 175.2 FPS
Medium settings 271.7 FPS 219.0 FPS
Low settings 339.7 FPS 273.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 19.4 %
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