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General information Core i7-5960X Pentium G4500
Launched Q3 2014 Q4 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 FCLGA1151
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Pentium
Core Family Name Haswell-E Skylake-S
Clock 3 GHz 14.3 % 3.5 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 2 75 %
Threads 16 0 % 2 87.5 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 51 W 63.6 %
Maximum supported RAM 64 GB 0 % 64 GB 0 %
Lithography 22 nm 0 % 14 nm 36.4 %
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 G4500
Overall Score 53444 0 % 36525 31.7 %
Future Proof 43 % 14 % 50 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 8158 0 % 1780 78.2 %
Single Thread Score 1978.1 7.1 % 2129.8 0 %
Encrypting Data 3669.1 MB/s 9.9 % 4073.6 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 193 MB/s 0 % 39.4 MB/s 79.6 %
String objects sorting 27558.7 thousand/s 0 % 5119.6 thousand/s 81.4 %
Prime numbers generation 60.9 millions/s 0 % 15.8 millions/s 74 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47991.9 millions/s 0 % 7794 millions/s 83.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23903.2 millions/s 0 % 6752.2 millions/s 71.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Pentium G4500.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Pentium G4500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 113.6 FPS 63.3 FPS
High settings 181.7 FPS 101.3 FPS
Medium settings 227.2 FPS 126.6 FPS
Low settings 283.9 FPS 158.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 44.3 %

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 G4500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.4 FPS 115.2 FPS
High settings 232.6 FPS 184.3 FPS
Medium settings 290.8 FPS 230.4 FPS
Low settings 363.5 FPS 288.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 20.8 %
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