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General information Core i7-970 Athlon X4 860K
Launched Q3 2010 Q3 2014
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA1366 FM2+
Series Name Intel Core i7 AMD Athlon X4
Core Family Name Gulftown Kaveri
Clock 3.2 GHz 13.5 % 3.7 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 12.5 % 4 GHz 0 %
Cores 6 0 % 4 33.3 %
Threads 12 0 % 4 66.7 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 0 % 95 W 26.9 %
Lithography 32 nm 0 % 28 nm 12.5 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
2 × 96 kB Instruction
4 × 16 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
2 × 2 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-970 Athlon X4 860K
Overall Score 45369 0 % 38573 15 %
Future Proof 20 % 53.5 % 43 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 4237 0 % 2214 47.7 %
Single Thread Score 1475.8 4.2 % 1539.7 0 %
Encrypting Data 2496 MB/s 50.8 % 5069.4 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 110.4 MB/s 0 % 55.6 MB/s 49.6 %
String objects sorting 15060.8 thousand/s 0 % 6618.7 thousand/s 56.1 %
Prime numbers generation 29.2 millions/s 0 % 13 millions/s 55.6 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 27616.9 millions/s 0 % 19876.7 millions/s 28 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 11639.6 millions/s 0 % 5535.4 millions/s 52.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-970, Athlon X4 860K.

Average frames per second Core i7-970 Athlon X4 860K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 89.4 FPS 69.3 FPS
High settings 143.1 FPS 110.9 FPS
Medium settings 178.9 FPS 138.6 FPS
Low settings 223.6 FPS 173.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 22.5 %

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 i7-970 Athlon X4 860K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 130.4 FPS 118.5 FPS
High settings 208.6 FPS 189.5 FPS
Medium settings 260.8 FPS 236.9 FPS
Low settings 326.0 FPS 296.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 9.2 %
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