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General information Athlon X4 840 Core2 Extreme Q6850
Launched Q1 2015 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket FM2+ LGA775
Clock 3.1 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 3.2 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 4 0 % 4 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 50 % 130 W 0 %
Performance Athlon X4 840 Core2 Extreme Q6850
Overall Score 38274 0 % 34936 8.7 %
Future Proof 46 % 0 % 10 % 78.3 %
Benchmark Score 2146 0 % 1490 30.6 %
Single Thread Score 1489.5 0 % 1219.9 18.1 %
Encrypting Data 4860 MB/s 0 % 3377.2 MB/s 30.5 %
Compressing Data 55 MB/s 0 % 52.7 MB/s 4.2 %
String objects sorting 6493.5 thousand/s 5.3 % 6858.5 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 13.1 millions/s 0 % 10.9 millions/s 16.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 19651.6 millions/s 0 % 10567.9 millions/s 46.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 5386 millions/s 0 % 5148.5 millions/s 4.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Athlon X4 840, Core2 Extreme Q6850.

Average frames per second Athlon X4 840 Core2 Extreme Q6850
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 68.3 FPS 58.5 FPS
High settings 109.3 FPS 93.5 FPS
Medium settings 136.7 FPS 116.9 FPS
Low settings 170.8 FPS 146.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 14.5 %

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 Core2 Extreme Q6850
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 117.7 FPS 111.9 FPS
High settings 188.3 FPS 179.0 FPS
Medium settings 235.4 FPS 223.8 FPS
Low settings 294.3 FPS 279.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 5 %
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