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General information Core i7-5960X Core2 Duo E4400
Launched Q3 2014 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 LGA775
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Core 2 Duo
Core Family Name Haswell-E Conroe
Clock 3 GHz 0 % 2 GHz 33.3 %
Cores 8 0 % 2 75 %
Threads 16 0 % 2 87.5 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 65 W 53.6 %
Lithography 22 nm 66.2 % 65 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
1 × 2 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-5960X Core2 Duo E4400
Overall Score 53568 0 % 25683 52.1 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 10 % 76.7 %
Benchmark Score 8234 0 % 435 94.7 %
Single Thread Score 1971.1 0 % 764.8 61.2 %
Encrypting Data 3660 MB/s 0 % 1002.4 MB/s 72.6 %
Compressing Data 193.2 MB/s 0 % 13.6 MB/s 92.9 %
String objects sorting 27803.5 thousand/s 0 % 2042.2 thousand/s 92.7 %
Prime numbers generation 61.4 millions/s 0 % 3 millions/s 95.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47353.2 millions/s 0 % 2661.5 millions/s 94.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23894.5 millions/s 0 % 1522.5 millions/s 93.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Core2 Duo E4400.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Core2 Duo E4400
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 113.8 FPS 34.1 FPS
High settings 182.1 FPS 54.5 FPS
Medium settings 227.7 FPS 68.1 FPS
Low settings 284.6 FPS 85.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 70.1 %

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 Core2 Duo E4400
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.8 FPS 95.6 FPS
High settings 231.7 FPS 152.9 FPS
Medium settings 289.6 FPS 191.1 FPS
Low settings 362.0 FPS 238.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 34 %
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