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General information Core i7-5960X Pentium Gold G5500
Launched Q3 2014 Q2 2018
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Pentium Gold
Core Family Name Haswell-E Coffee Lake
Clock 3 GHz 21.1 % 3.8 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 2 75 %
Threads 16 0 % 4 75 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 54 W 61.4 %
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 × 4 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-5960X Pentium Gold G5500
Overall Score 53568 0 % 39650 26 %
Future Proof 43 % 33.8 % 65 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 8234 0 % 2472 70 %
Single Thread Score 1971.1 12.1 % 2242.5 0 %
Encrypting Data 3660 MB/s 0 % 1428.1 MB/s 61 %
Compressing Data 193.2 MB/s 0 % 56.3 MB/s 70.9 %
String objects sorting 27803.5 thousand/s 0 % 7446.9 thousand/s 73.2 %
Prime numbers generation 61.4 millions/s 0 % 16.9 millions/s 72.5 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47353.2 millions/s 0 % 13010.7 millions/s 72.5 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23894.5 millions/s 0 % 8059 millions/s 66.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Pentium Gold G5500.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Pentium Gold G5500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 113.8 FPS 72.5 FPS
High settings 182.1 FPS 116.0 FPS
Medium settings 227.7 FPS 144.9 FPS
Low settings 284.6 FPS 181.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 36.3 %

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 Gold G5500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.8 FPS 120.2 FPS
High settings 231.7 FPS 192.4 FPS
Medium settings 289.6 FPS 240.5 FPS
Low settings 362.0 FPS 300.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 17 %
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