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General information Core i7-3970X Pentium G3260
Launched Q1 2012 Q2 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011 LGA1150
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Pentium
Core Family Name Sandy Bridge-E Haswell Refresh
Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 3.3 GHz 5.7 %
Cores 6 0 % 2 66.7 %
Threads 12 0 % 2 83.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 W 0 % 53 W 64.7 %
Lithography 32 nm 0 % 22 nm 31.3 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
2 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 15 MB
1 × 3 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-3970X Pentium G3260
Overall Score 48362 0 % 34086 29.5 %
Future Proof 28 % 40.4 % 47 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 5470 0 % 1350 75.3 %
Single Thread Score 1823.4 1.5 % 1852.1 0 %
Encrypting Data 2706.8 MB/s 12.1 % 3079.5 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 144.8 MB/s 0 % 35.5 MB/s 75.5 %
String objects sorting 21638 thousand/s 0 % 4848.5 thousand/s 77.6 %
Prime numbers generation 40 millions/s 0 % 15 millions/s 62.5 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 31952.4 millions/s 0 % 7363.6 millions/s 77 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12621.5 millions/s 0 % 5601.5 millions/s 55.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-3970X, Pentium G3260.

Average frames per second Core i7-3970X Pentium G3260
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 98.3 FPS 56.0 FPS
High settings 157.3 FPS 89.6 FPS
Medium settings 196.7 FPS 112.0 FPS
Low settings 245.9 FPS 140.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 43.1 %

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 i7-3970X Pentium G3260
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 135.8 FPS 110.7 FPS
High settings 217.3 FPS 177.1 FPS
Medium settings 271.6 FPS 221.3 FPS
Low settings 339.5 FPS 276.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 18.5 %
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