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General information Core i5-6400 Core i3-4170
Launched Q3 2015 Q2 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1151 LGA1150
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Core i3
Core Family Name Skylake-S Haswell Refresh
Clock 2.7 GHz 27 % 3.7 GHz 0 %
Cores 4 0 % 2 50 %
Threads 4 0 % 4 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 0 % 54 W 16.9 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 4 × 256 kB
2 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 6 MB
1 × 3 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported No Yes
Integrated GPU Intel HD Graphics 530 Intel HD Graphics 4400
Performance Core i5-6400 Core i3-4170
Overall Score 42756 0 % 39045 8.7 %
Future Proof 49 % 0 % 47 % 4.1 %
Benchmark Score 3342 0 % 2324 30.5 %
Single Thread Score 1957 5.3 % 2066.2 0 %
Encrypting Data 1489.5 MB/s 72 % 5323.4 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 70.3 MB/s 0 % 51.5 MB/s 26.7 %
String objects sorting 8950.2 thousand/s 0 % 7205.9 thousand/s 19.5 %
Prime numbers generation 25.8 millions/s 0 % 15.1 millions/s 41.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 13627.8 millions/s 0 % 12490.5 millions/s 8.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 11493.9 millions/s 0 % 6266.8 millions/s 45.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-6400, Core i3-4170.

Average frames per second Core i5-6400 Core i3-4170
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 81.7 FPS 70.7 FPS
High settings 130.7 FPS 113.0 FPS
Medium settings 163.4 FPS 141.3 FPS
Low settings 204.2 FPS 176.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.5 %

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 Core i5-6400 Core i3-4170
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 125.9 FPS 119.4 FPS
High settings 201.5 FPS 191.0 FPS
Medium settings 251.8 FPS 238.8 FPS
Low settings 314.8 FPS 298.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 5.2 %
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