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General information Core i5-6600 Athlon X4 840
Launched Q3 2015 Q1 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA1151 FM2+
Series Name Intel Core i5 AMD Athlon X4
Core Family Name Skylake-S Kaveri
Clock 3.3 GHz 0 % 3.1 GHz 6.1 %
Turbo Clock 3.9 GHz 0 % 3.8 GHz 2.6 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 4 0 % 4 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 0 % 65 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 50 % 28 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
2 × 96 kB Instruction
4 × 16 kB Data
L2 Cache 4 × 256 kB
2 × 2 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Core i5-6600 Athlon X4 840
Overall Score 44475 0 % 38273 13.9 %
Future Proof 49 % 0 % 46 % 6.1 %
Benchmark Score 3913 0 % 2146 45.2 %
Single Thread Score 2243.2 0 % 1482.1 33.9 %
Encrypting Data 1796.4 MB/s 63.3 % 4899.2 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 81.4 MB/s 0 % 54.8 MB/s 32.7 %
String objects sorting 10117.9 thousand/s 0 % 6467.4 thousand/s 36.1 %
Prime numbers generation 29.1 millions/s 0 % 12.9 millions/s 55.6 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 15912.6 millions/s 18.9 % 19631.9 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 13317.1 millions/s 0 % 5386 millions/s 59.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-6600, Athlon X4 840.

Average frames per second Core i5-6600 Athlon X4 840
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 86.8 FPS 68.4 FPS
High settings 138.9 FPS 109.5 FPS
Medium settings 173.6 FPS 136.8 FPS
Low settings 217.0 FPS 171.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 21.2 %

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 i5-6600 Athlon X4 840
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 128.8 FPS 117.9 FPS
High settings 206.1 FPS 188.7 FPS
Medium settings 257.7 FPS 235.9 FPS
Low settings 322.1 FPS 294.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 8.5 %
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