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General information Core i7-6950X Core i5-3550
Launched Q2 2016 Q1 2012
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 LGA1155
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Broadwell-E Ivy Bridge
Clock 3 GHz 9.1 % 3.3 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.7 GHz 7.5 %
Cores 10 0 % 4 60 %
Threads 20 0 % 4 80 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 77 W 45 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 10 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 25 MB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-6950X Core i5-3550
Overall Score 58082 0 % 42092 27.5 %
Future Proof 53 % 0 % 28 % 47.2 %
Benchmark Score 11381 0 % 3139 72.4 %
Single Thread Score 2336 0 % 1995 14.6 %
Encrypting Data 5058.1 MB/s 0 % 1213.9 MB/s 76 %
Compressing Data 273.2 MB/s 0 % 73.2 MB/s 73.2 %
String objects sorting 35574 thousand/s 0 % 9402.8 thousand/s 73.6 %
Prime numbers generation 79.3 millions/s 0 % 28.9 millions/s 63.5 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 63978.4 millions/s 0 % 15399.6 millions/s 75.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 40712.8 millions/s 0 % 11293.7 millions/s 72.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-6950X, Core i5-3550.

Average frames per second Core i7-6950X Core i5-3550
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 126.7 FPS 79.4 FPS
High settings 202.7 FPS 127.0 FPS
Medium settings 253.4 FPS 158.7 FPS
Low settings 316.8 FPS 198.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 37.4 %

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 Core i5-3550
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.7 FPS 124.4 FPS
High settings 244.2 FPS 199.1 FPS
Medium settings 305.3 FPS 248.9 FPS
Low settings 381.6 FPS 311.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 18.5 %
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