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General information Core i7-4960X A10-7870K
Launched Q1 2013 Q2 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA2011 FM2+
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme AMD A10
Core Family Name Ivy Bridge-E Godavari
Clock 3.6 GHz 7.7 % 3.9 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 2.4 % 4.1 GHz 0 %
Cores 6 0 % 4 33.3 %
Threads 12 0 % 4 66.7 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 0 % 95 W 26.9 %
Lithography 22 nm 21.4 % 28 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
2 × 96 kB Instruction
4 × 16 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
2 × 2 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-4960X A10-7870K
Overall Score 50541 0 % 38601 23.6 %
Future Proof 34 % 27.7 % 47 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 6525 0 % 2220 66 %
Single Thread Score 2084.1 0 % 1486 28.7 %
Encrypting Data 2983 MB/s 41.4 % 5089.3 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 162.9 MB/s 0 % 56.7 MB/s 65.2 %
String objects sorting 23175.1 thousand/s 0 % 6602.2 thousand/s 71.5 %
Prime numbers generation 47.5 millions/s 0 % 12.9 millions/s 72.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 37287.2 millions/s 0 % 19390.1 millions/s 48 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 18514.3 millions/s 0 % 5542.1 millions/s 70.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-4960X, A10-7870K.

Average frames per second Core i7-4960X A10-7870K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 104.8 FPS 69.4 FPS
High settings 167.7 FPS 111.0 FPS
Medium settings 209.6 FPS 138.8 FPS
Low settings 262.0 FPS 173.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 33.8 %

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 i7-4960X A10-7870K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 139.5 FPS 118.5 FPS
High settings 223.2 FPS 189.6 FPS
Medium settings 279.0 FPS 237.0 FPS
Low settings 348.8 FPS 296.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 15.1 %
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