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General information Core i7-5930K Core i5-4590
Launched Q3 2014 Q2 2014
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 LGA1150
Series Name Intel Core i7 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Haswell-E Haswell Refresh
Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 3.3 GHz 5.7 %
Turbo Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 3.7 GHz 0 %
Cores 6 0 % 4 33.3 %
Threads 12 0 % 4 66.7 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 84 W 40 %
Lithography 22 nm 0 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 15 MB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-5930K Core i5-4590
Overall Score 50927 0 % 43269 15 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 42 % 2.3 %
Benchmark Score 6726 0 % 3505 47.9 %
Single Thread Score 2030.6 2 % 2071.4 0 %
Encrypting Data 2932.5 MB/s 0 % 1347.7 MB/s 54 %
Compressing Data 153.2 MB/s 0 % 75 MB/s 51 %
String objects sorting 21710.8 thousand/s 0 % 10281.5 thousand/s 52.6 %
Prime numbers generation 48.3 millions/s 0 % 31.7 millions/s 34.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 37698.8 millions/s 0 % 16054.8 millions/s 57.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 18724.5 millions/s 0 % 12132.3 millions/s 35.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5930K, Core i5-4590.

Average frames per second Core i7-5930K Core i5-4590
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 105.5 FPS 82.8 FPS
High settings 168.8 FPS 132.5 FPS
Medium settings 211.0 FPS 165.6 FPS
Low settings 263.8 FPS 207.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 21.5 %

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 i7-5930K Core i5-4590
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 140.0 FPS 126.5 FPS
High settings 224.0 FPS 202.4 FPS
Medium settings 280.1 FPS 253.0 FPS
Low settings 350.1 FPS 316.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 9.7 %
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