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General information Core i7-960 Athlon X4 840
Launched Q4 2009 Q1 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA1366 FM2+
Series Name Intel Core i7 AMD Athlon X4
Core Family Name Bloomfield Kaveri
Clock 3.2 GHz 0 % 3.1 GHz 3.1 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 7.9 % 3.8 GHz 0 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 8 0 % 4 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 0 % 65 W 50 %
Lithography 45 nm 0 % 28 nm 37.8 %
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 i7-960 Athlon X4 840
Overall Score 38407 0 % 38367 0.1 %
Future Proof 15 % 67.4 % 46 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 2176 0 % 2167 0.4 %
Single Thread Score 1452.2 2.1 % 1483.5 0 %
Encrypting Data 4666.2 MB/s 0 % 4642 MB/s 0.5 %
Compressing Data 71.4 MB/s 0 % 55.2 MB/s 22.7 %
String objects sorting 9912.8 thousand/s 0 % 6552.1 thousand/s 33.9 %
Prime numbers generation 23.2 millions/s 0 % 13.1 millions/s 43.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 18110.1 millions/s 7.8 % 19651.6 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 7684.6 millions/s 0 % 5424 millions/s 29.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-960, Athlon X4 840.

Average frames per second Core i7-960 Athlon X4 840
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 68.4 FPS 68.3 FPS
High settings 109.5 FPS 109.3 FPS
Medium settings 136.9 FPS 136.7 FPS
Low settings 171.1 FPS 170.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.1 %

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 i7-960 Athlon X4 840
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 117.9 FPS 117.9 FPS
High settings 188.7 FPS 188.6 FPS
Medium settings 235.8 FPS 235.7 FPS
Low settings 294.8 FPS 294.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.1 %
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