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General information Core i7-5960X Pentium E6500
Launched Q3 2014 Q4 2009
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 LGA775
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Pentium
Core Family Name Haswell-E Wolfdale
Clock 3 GHz 0 % 2.9 GHz 3.3 %
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 51.1 % 45 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 Pentium E6500
Overall Score 53568 0 % 29428 45.1 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 15 % 65.1 %
Benchmark Score 8234 0 % 750 90.9 %
Single Thread Score 1971.1 0 % 1229.6 37.6 %
Encrypting Data 3660 MB/s 0 % 1710.6 MB/s 53.3 %
Compressing Data 193.2 MB/s 0 % 24.3 MB/s 87.4 %
String objects sorting 27803.5 thousand/s 0 % 3356.7 thousand/s 87.9 %
Prime numbers generation 61.4 millions/s 0 % 5 millions/s 91.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47353.2 millions/s 0 % 5265.9 millions/s 88.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23894.5 millions/s 0 % 3077.1 millions/s 87.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Pentium E6500.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Pentium E6500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 113.8 FPS 42.3 FPS
High settings 182.1 FPS 67.7 FPS
Medium settings 227.7 FPS 84.6 FPS
Low settings 284.6 FPS 105.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 62.8 %

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 E6500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.8 FPS 102.2 FPS
High settings 231.7 FPS 163.5 FPS
Medium settings 289.6 FPS 204.4 FPS
Low settings 362.0 FPS 255.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 29.4 %
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