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General information Core i7-5960X Core i5-6600K
Launched Q3 2014 Q3 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 FCLGA1151
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Haswell-E Skylake-S
Clock 3 GHz 14.3 % 3.5 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 10.3 % 3.9 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 4 50 %
Threads 16 0 % 4 75 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 91 W 35 %
Lithography 22 nm 0 % 14 nm 36.4 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-5960X Core i5-6600K
Overall Score 53679 0 % 45073 16 %
Future Proof 43 % 12.2 % 49 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 8302 0 % 4127 50.3 %
Single Thread Score 1969.1 15.5 % 2329.3 0 %
Encrypting Data 3699.7 MB/s 0 % 1854.7 MB/s 49.9 %
Compressing Data 193 MB/s 0 % 84.3 MB/s 56.3 %
String objects sorting 27865.6 thousand/s 0 % 10720.5 thousand/s 61.5 %
Prime numbers generation 62.4 millions/s 0 % 30.8 millions/s 50.6 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47622.7 millions/s 0 % 16404.1 millions/s 65.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23525.3 millions/s 0 % 13990.4 millions/s 40.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Core i5-6600K.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Core i5-6600K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 113.6 FPS 88.2 FPS
High settings 181.8 FPS 141.1 FPS
Medium settings 227.3 FPS 176.3 FPS
Low settings 284.1 FPS 220.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 22.4 %

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 i7-5960X Core i5-6600K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.9 FPS 129.7 FPS
High settings 231.8 FPS 207.5 FPS
Medium settings 289.8 FPS 259.4 FPS
Low settings 362.2 FPS 324.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 10.5 %
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