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General information Core i7-6700K Athlon X4 840
Launched Q3 2015 Q1 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA1151 FM2+
Series Name Intel Core i7 AMD Athlon X4
Core Family Name Skylake-S Kaveri
Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.1 GHz 22.5 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 0 % 3.8 GHz 9.5 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 8 0 % 4 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 W 0 % 65 W 31.6 %
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 Yes No
Performance Core i7-6700K Athlon X4 840
Overall Score 49016 0 % 38273 21.9 %
Future Proof 49 % 0 % 46 % 6.1 %
Benchmark Score 5772 0 % 2146 62.8 %
Single Thread Score 2521.5 0 % 1474.6 41.5 %
Encrypting Data 3051.9 MB/s 38.3 % 4944.1 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 123.2 MB/s 0 % 54.9 MB/s 55.4 %
String objects sorting 16009.8 thousand/s 0 % 6513 thousand/s 59.3 %
Prime numbers generation 29.8 millions/s 0 % 12.9 millions/s 56.5 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 28221.4 millions/s 0 % 19769.8 millions/s 29.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 17221.6 millions/s 0 % 5402.3 millions/s 68.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-6700K, Athlon X4 840.

Average frames per second Core i7-6700K Athlon X4 840
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 100.3 FPS 68.4 FPS
High settings 160.5 FPS 109.5 FPS
Medium settings 200.6 FPS 136.8 FPS
Low settings 250.8 FPS 171.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 31.8 %

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 i7-6700K Athlon X4 840
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 136.9 FPS 118.0 FPS
High settings 219.0 FPS 188.8 FPS
Medium settings 273.7 FPS 236.0 FPS
Low settings 342.2 FPS 295.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.8 %
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