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General information Core i7-6950X Athlon X4 950
Launched Q2 2016 Q3 2017
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA2011-v3 AM4
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme AMD Athlon X4
Core Family Name Broadwell-E Bristol Ridge
Clock 3 GHz 14.3 % 3.5 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.8 GHz 5 %
Cores 10 0 % 4 60 %
Threads 20 0 % 4 80 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 65 W 53.6 %
Lithography 14 nm 50 % 28 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Data
2 × 96 kB Instruction
L2 Cache 10 × 256 kB
2 × 1 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-6950X Athlon X4 950
Overall Score 57930 0 % 39026 32.6 %
Future Proof 53 % 11.7 % 60 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 11262 0 % 2320 79.4 %
Single Thread Score 2334 0 % 1623.6 30.4 %
Encrypting Data 5019.8 MB/s 0 % 1127.7 MB/s 77.5 %
Compressing Data 270.2 MB/s 0 % 59.3 MB/s 78 %
String objects sorting 35548.8 thousand/s 0 % 6554 thousand/s 81.6 %
Prime numbers generation 78.5 millions/s 0 % 10.9 millions/s 86.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 64087.2 millions/s 0 % 19419.8 millions/s 69.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 41170.2 millions/s 0 % 5928.2 millions/s 85.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-6950X, Athlon X4 950.

Average frames per second Core i7-6950X Athlon X4 950
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 126.8 FPS 70.7 FPS
High settings 202.9 FPS 113.1 FPS
Medium settings 253.6 FPS 141.3 FPS
Low settings 317.0 FPS 176.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 44.3 %

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 i7-6950X Athlon X4 950
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.6 FPS 119.4 FPS
High settings 244.1 FPS 191.0 FPS
Medium settings 305.1 FPS 238.7 FPS
Low settings 381.4 FPS 298.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 21.8 %
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