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General information Core i9-7940X FX-8300
Launched Q3 2017 Q1 2013
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket FCLGA2066 AM3+
Series Name Intel Core i9 AMD FX
Core Family Name Skylake-X Vishera
Clock 3.1 GHz 6.1 % 3.3 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.3 GHz 0 % 4.2 GHz 2.3 %
Cores 14 0 % 8 42.9 %
Threads 28 0 % 8 71.4 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 95 W 42.4 %
Lithography 14 nm 56.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 14 × 32 kB Instruction
14 × 32 kB Data
4 × 64 kB Instruction
8 × 16 kB Data
L2 Cache 14 × 1 MB
4 × 2 MB
L3 Cache 1 × 19.25 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i9-7940X FX-8300
Overall Score 64043 0 % 43037 32.8 %
Future Proof 60 % 0 % 34 % 43.3 %
Benchmark Score 16823 0 % 3431 79.6 %
Single Thread Score 2484 0 % 1490 40 %
Encrypting Data 9739.3 MB/s 0 % 1615.3 MB/s 83.4 %
Compressing Data 418.4 MB/s 0 % 87.4 MB/s 79.1 %
String objects sorting 53397.7 thousand/s 0 % 11315.6 thousand/s 78.8 %
Prime numbers generation 91.6 millions/s 0 % 28.2 millions/s 69.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 96048.3 millions/s 0 % 36111.6 millions/s 62.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 59719.6 millions/s 0 % 9681.4 millions/s 83.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7940X, FX-8300.

Average frames per second Core i9-7940X FX-8300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.0 FPS 82.5 FPS
High settings 232.0 FPS 132.0 FPS
Medium settings 290.0 FPS 165.0 FPS
Low settings 362.5 FPS 206.2 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 i9-7940X FX-8300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 163.4 FPS 126.3 FPS
High settings 261.5 FPS 202.1 FPS
Medium settings 326.9 FPS 252.6 FPS
Low settings 408.6 FPS 315.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 22.7 %
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