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General information Core i7-4960X Core i7-5820K
Launched Q1 2013 Q3 2014
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011 LGA2011-v3
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Ivy Bridge-E Haswell-E
Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3.3 GHz 8.3 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.6 GHz 10 %
Cores 6 0 % 6 0 %
Threads 12 0 % 12 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 7.1 % 140 W 0 %
Lithography 22 nm 0 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 15 MB
1 × 15 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-4960X Core i7-5820K
Overall Score 50545 0 % 50249 0.6 %
Future Proof 34 % 20.9 % 43 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 6527 0 % 6375 2.3 %
Single Thread Score 2090.3 0 % 2006 4 %
Encrypting Data 2980 MB/s 0 % 2798 MB/s 6.1 %
Compressing Data 163.2 MB/s 0 % 144.9 MB/s 11.2 %
String objects sorting 23221.1 thousand/s 0 % 20930.5 thousand/s 9.9 %
Prime numbers generation 48.1 millions/s 0 % 46 millions/s 4.5 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 37324.2 millions/s 0 % 35989.6 millions/s 3.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 18495.7 millions/s 0 % 18012 millions/s 2.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-4960X, Core i7-5820K.

Average frames per second Core i7-4960X Core i7-5820K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 104.7 FPS 103.9 FPS
High settings 167.6 FPS 166.3 FPS
Medium settings 209.5 FPS 207.9 FPS
Low settings 261.9 FPS 259.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.8 %

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 i7-4960X Core i7-5820K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 139.5 FPS 138.9 FPS
High settings 223.1 FPS 222.3 FPS
Medium settings 278.9 FPS 277.9 FPS
Low settings 348.6 FPS 347.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.4 %
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