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General information Core i7-12700K Athlon X4 840
Launched Q4 2021 Q1 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket FCLGA1700 FM2+
Series Name Intel Core i7 AMD Athlon X4
Core Family Name Alder Lake Kaveri
Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3.1 GHz 13.9 %
Turbo Clock 5 GHz 0 % 3.8 GHz 24 %
Cores 12 0 % 4 66.7 %
Threads 20 0 % 4 80 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 190 W 0 % 65 W 65.8 %
Lithography 10 nm 64.3 % 28 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 48 kB Data
2 × 96 kB Instruction
4 × 16 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 1.25 MB
2 × 2 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-12700K Athlon X4 840
Overall Score 68786 0 % 38274 44.4 %
Future Proof 85 % 0 % 46 % 45.9 %
Benchmark Score 22387 0 % 2146 90.4 %
Single Thread Score 4042.1 0 % 1482.1 63.3 %
Encrypting Data 23740.4 MB/s 0 % 4830.9 MB/s 79.7 %
Compressing Data 439 MB/s 0 % 55.2 MB/s 87.4 %
String objects sorting 45791.6 thousand/s 0 % 6552.1 thousand/s 85.7 %
Prime numbers generation 116.6 millions/s 0 % 13 millions/s 88.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 113611 millions/s 0 % 19769.8 millions/s 82.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 87779.2 millions/s 0 % 5375.2 millions/s 93.9 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-12700K, Athlon X4 840.

Average frames per second Core i7-12700K Athlon X4 840
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 159.0 FPS 68.4 FPS
High settings 254.4 FPS 109.4 FPS
Medium settings 318.0 FPS 136.7 FPS
Low settings 397.5 FPS 170.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 57 %

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 i7-12700K Athlon X4 840
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 171.7 FPS 117.8 FPS
High settings 274.8 FPS 188.5 FPS
Medium settings 343.4 FPS 235.6 FPS
Low settings 429.3 FPS 294.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 31.4 %
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