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General information Core i7-5960X Athlon X4 840
Launched Q3 2014 Q1 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA2011-v3 FM2+
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme AMD Athlon X4
Core Family Name Haswell-E Kaveri
Clock 3 GHz 3.2 % 3.1 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 7.9 % 3.8 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 4 50 %
Threads 16 0 % 4 75 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 65 W 53.6 %
Lithography 22 nm 21.4 % 28 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
2 × 96 kB Instruction
4 × 16 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
2 × 2 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-5960X Athlon X4 840
Overall Score 53561 0 % 38274 28.5 %
Future Proof 43 % 6.5 % 46 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 8230 0 % 2146 73.9 %
Single Thread Score 1992 0 % 1486.5 25.4 %
Encrypting Data 3706.1 MB/s 24.1 % 4884.6 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 191.9 MB/s 0 % 54.5 MB/s 71.6 %
String objects sorting 27447.8 thousand/s 0 % 6467.4 thousand/s 76.4 %
Prime numbers generation 61.4 millions/s 0 % 12.9 millions/s 79 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47230.1 millions/s 0 % 19710.7 millions/s 58.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23665.2 millions/s 0 % 5402.3 millions/s 77.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Athlon X4 840.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Athlon X4 840
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 113.8 FPS 68.4 FPS
High settings 182.1 FPS 109.5 FPS
Medium settings 227.6 FPS 136.8 FPS
Low settings 284.5 FPS 171.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 39.9 %

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 i7-5960X Athlon X4 840
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.8 FPS 117.8 FPS
High settings 231.7 FPS 188.6 FPS
Medium settings 289.6 FPS 235.7 FPS
Low settings 362.0 FPS 294.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 18.6 %
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