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General information Athlon X4 840 Core i7-860
Launched Q1 2015 Q3 2009
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket FM2+ LGA1156
Series Name AMD Athlon X4 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Kaveri Lynnfield
Clock 3.1 GHz 0 % 2.8 GHz 9.7 %
Turbo Clock 3.8 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 7.9 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 4 50 % 8 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 31.6 % 95 W 0 %
Lithography 28 nm 37.8 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 2 × 96 kB Instruction
4 × 16 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 2 × 2 MB
4 × 256 kB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No Yes
Performance Athlon X4 840 Core i7-860
Overall Score 38367 0 % 37366 2.6 %
Future Proof 46 % 0 % 14 % 69.6 %
Benchmark Score 2167 0 % 1949 10.1 %
Single Thread Score 1483.5 0 % 1331.3 10.3 %
Encrypting Data 4642 MB/s 0 % 4197.1 MB/s 9.6 %
Compressing Data 55.2 MB/s 12.2 % 62.9 MB/s 0 %
String objects sorting 6552.1 thousand/s 26.5 % 8915.4 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 13.1 millions/s 37.7 % 20.9 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 19651.6 millions/s 0 % 15999.9 millions/s 18.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 5424 millions/s 21.6 % 6916.9 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Athlon X4 840, Core i7-860.

Average frames per second Athlon X4 840 Core i7-860
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 68.3 FPS 65.4 FPS
High settings 109.3 FPS 104.6 FPS
Medium settings 136.7 FPS 130.8 FPS
Low settings 170.9 FPS 163.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 4.3 %

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 Athlon X4 840 Core i7-860
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 117.9 FPS 116.1 FPS
High settings 188.6 FPS 185.8 FPS
Medium settings 235.7 FPS 232.3 FPS
Low settings 294.6 FPS 290.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 1.5 %
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