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General information Core i7-5960X Pentium G3420
Launched Q3 2014 Q3 2013
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 FCLGA1150
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Pentium
Core Family Name Haswell-E Haswell
Clock 3 GHz 6.3 % 3.2 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 2 75 %
Threads 16 0 % 2 87.5 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 54 W 61.4 %
Lithography 22 nm 0 % 22 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
2 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 3 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-5960X Pentium G3420
Overall Score 53560 0 % 33435 37.6 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 37 % 14 %
Benchmark Score 8229 0 % 1250 84.8 %
Single Thread Score 1966.1 0 % 1740.7 11.5 %
Encrypting Data 3669.1 MB/s 0 % 2873.5 MB/s 21.7 %
Compressing Data 192.1 MB/s 0 % 32.1 MB/s 83.3 %
String objects sorting 27447.8 thousand/s 0 % 4508.6 thousand/s 83.6 %
Prime numbers generation 61.1 millions/s 0 % 14 millions/s 77 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47468.2 millions/s 0 % 6769.1 millions/s 85.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23903.2 millions/s 0 % 5299.8 millions/s 77.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, Pentium G3420.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X Pentium G3420
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 113.7 FPS 54.1 FPS
High settings 182.0 FPS 86.6 FPS
Medium settings 227.5 FPS 108.2 FPS
Low settings 284.3 FPS 135.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 52.4 %

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 Pentium G3420
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.9 FPS 109.2 FPS
High settings 231.8 FPS 174.8 FPS
Medium settings 289.8 FPS 218.5 FPS
Low settings 362.2 FPS 273.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 24.6 %
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