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General information Core i7-6700K Core i3-4170
Launched Q3 2015 Q2 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1151 LGA1150
Series Name Intel Core i7 Intel Core i3
Core Family Name Skylake-S Haswell Refresh
Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.7 GHz 7.5 %
Cores 4 0 % 2 50 %
Threads 8 0 % 4 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 W 0 % 54 W 43.2 %
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 × 8 MB
1 × 3 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Integrated GPU Intel HD Graphics 530 Intel HD Graphics 4400
Performance Core i7-6700K Core i3-4170
Overall Score 49016 0 % 39045 20.3 %
Future Proof 49 % 0 % 47 % 4.1 %
Benchmark Score 5772 0 % 2324 59.7 %
Single Thread Score 2521.5 0 % 2078.5 17.6 %
Encrypting Data 3051.9 MB/s 43 % 5350 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 123.2 MB/s 0 % 51.7 MB/s 58 %
String objects sorting 16009.8 thousand/s 0 % 7264 thousand/s 54.6 %
Prime numbers generation 29.8 millions/s 0 % 15.1 millions/s 49.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 28221.4 millions/s 0 % 12465.5 millions/s 55.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 17221.6 millions/s 0 % 6298.3 millions/s 63.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-6700K, Core i3-4170.

Average frames per second Core i7-6700K Core i3-4170
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 100.3 FPS 70.7 FPS
High settings 160.5 FPS 113.0 FPS
Medium settings 200.6 FPS 141.3 FPS
Low settings 250.8 FPS 176.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 29.6 %

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 Core i7-6700K Core i3-4170
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 136.9 FPS 119.4 FPS
High settings 219.0 FPS 191.0 FPS
Medium settings 273.7 FPS 238.7 FPS
Low settings 342.2 FPS 298.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 12.8 %
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