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General information Athlon X4 840 Core i7-870
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 % 2.9 GHz 6.5 %
Turbo Clock 3.8 GHz 0 % 3.6 GHz 5.3 %
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 i7-870
Overall Score 38273 0 % 37692 1.5 %
Future Proof 46 % 0 % 14 % 69.6 %
Benchmark Score 2146 0 % 2018 6 %
Single Thread Score 1482.1 0 % 1385 6.5 %
Encrypting Data 4889.4 MB/s 0 % 4617.6 MB/s 5.6 %
Compressing Data 54.4 MB/s 18.5 % 66.7 MB/s 0 %
String objects sorting 6519.5 thousand/s 30 % 9312.5 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 12.9 millions/s 37.8 % 20.8 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 19631.9 millions/s 0 % 16997 millions/s 13.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 5396.9 millions/s 26.4 % 7336.6 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 i7-870.

Average frames per second Athlon X4 840 Core i7-870
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 68.4 FPS 66.7 FPS
High settings 109.5 FPS 106.7 FPS
Medium settings 136.8 FPS 133.3 FPS
Low settings 171.0 FPS 166.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 2.6 %

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 i7-870
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 118.1 FPS 117.1 FPS
High settings 188.9 FPS 187.3 FPS
Medium settings 236.1 FPS 234.1 FPS
Low settings 295.2 FPS 292.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.9 %
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