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General information Core i7-4960X Core i7-4790S
Launched Q1 2013 Q2 2014
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011 LGA1150
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Ivy Bridge-E Haswell Refresh
Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 11.1 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 0 %
Cores 6 0 % 4 33.3 %
Threads 12 0 % 8 33.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 0 % 65 W 50 %
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 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-4960X Core i7-4790S
Overall Score 50541 0 % 46151 8.7 %
Future Proof 34 % 19 % 42 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 6525 0 % 4537 30.5 %
Single Thread Score 2082 5 % 2191.3 0 %
Encrypting Data 2992 MB/s 0 % 1934.5 MB/s 35.3 %
Compressing Data 164.5 MB/s 0 % 102.9 MB/s 37.5 %
String objects sorting 22852.9 thousand/s 0 % 14401.4 thousand/s 37 %
Prime numbers generation 48.1 millions/s 0 % 31.2 millions/s 35.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 36731.8 millions/s 0 % 25043 millions/s 31.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 18662.8 millions/s 0 % 12523.7 millions/s 32.9 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-4960X, Core i7-4790S.

Average frames per second Core i7-4960X Core i7-4790S
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 104.8 FPS 91.8 FPS
High settings 167.7 FPS 146.8 FPS
Medium settings 209.6 FPS 183.6 FPS
Low settings 262.0 FPS 229.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 12.4 %

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 i7-4790S
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 139.6 FPS 131.9 FPS
High settings 223.4 FPS 211.0 FPS
Medium settings 279.2 FPS 263.8 FPS
Low settings 349.0 FPS 329.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 5.5 %
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