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General information Core i7-5960X Pentium G3258
Launched Q3 2014 Q2 2014
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 FCLGA1150
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Pentium
Core Family Name Haswell-E Haswell Refresh
Clock 3 GHz 6.3 % 3.2 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 2 75 %
Threads 16 0 % 2 87.5 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 53 W 62.1 %
Lithography 22 nm 0 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
2 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 3 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-5960X Pentium G3258
Overall Score 53636 0 % 34037 36.5 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 42 % 2.3 %
Benchmark Score 8276 0 % 1342 83.8 %
Single Thread Score 1980.1 0 % 1851.4 6.5 %
Encrypting Data 3750.1 MB/s 0 % 3036.9 MB/s 19 %
Compressing Data 194.6 MB/s 0 % 34.5 MB/s 82.3 %
String objects sorting 27729.6 thousand/s 0 % 4866.4 thousand/s 82.5 %
Prime numbers generation 62.1 millions/s 0 % 15.9 millions/s 74.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47702.7 millions/s 0 % 7364.7 millions/s 84.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 24049.5 millions/s 0 % 5663 millions/s 76.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Pentium G3258.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Pentium G3258
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 114.0 FPS 55.8 FPS
High settings 182.5 FPS 89.3 FPS
Medium settings 228.1 FPS 111.7 FPS
Low settings 285.1 FPS 139.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 51 %

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 i7-5960X Pentium G3258
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.0 FPS 110.6 FPS
High settings 232.0 FPS 177.0 FPS
Medium settings 290.0 FPS 221.2 FPS
Low settings 362.6 FPS 276.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 23.7 %
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