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General information Core i7-4960X FX-8310
Launched Q1 2013 Q4 2014
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA2011 AM3+
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme AMD FX
Core Family Name Ivy Bridge-E Vishera
Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3.4 GHz 5.6 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 7 % 4.3 GHz 0 %
Cores 6 25 % 8 0 %
Threads 12 0 % 8 33.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 0 % 95 W 26.9 %
Lithography 22 nm 31.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
4 × 64 kB Instruction
8 × 16 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
4 × 2 MB
L3 Cache 1 × 15 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-4960X FX-8310
Overall Score 50540 0 % 42714 15.5 %
Future Proof 34 % 22.7 % 44 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 6525 0 % 3329 49 %
Single Thread Score 2092.4 0 % 1417.4 32.3 %
Encrypting Data 2965.1 MB/s 0 % 1536.7 MB/s 48.2 %
Compressing Data 163.2 MB/s 0 % 89.5 MB/s 45.2 %
String objects sorting 23060 thousand/s 0 % 11712.4 thousand/s 49.2 %
Prime numbers generation 47.6 millions/s 0 % 28.8 millions/s 39.5 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 36657.7 millions/s 0.3 % 36754.6 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 18458.6 millions/s 0 % 8808.9 millions/s 52.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-4960X, FX-8310.

Average frames per second Core i7-4960X FX-8310
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 104.8 FPS 81.5 FPS
High settings 167.7 FPS 130.4 FPS
Medium settings 209.6 FPS 163.1 FPS
Low settings 262.0 FPS 203.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 22.2 %

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 FX-8310
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 139.3 FPS 125.6 FPS
High settings 222.9 FPS 201.0 FPS
Medium settings 278.7 FPS 251.2 FPS
Low settings 348.3 FPS 314.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 9.9 %
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