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General information Core i9-7960X Pentium G3420
Launched Q4 2017 Q3 2013
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 FCLGA1150
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Pentium
Core Family Name Skylake-X Haswell
Clock 2.8 GHz 12.5 % 3.2 GHz 0 %
Cores 16 0 % 2 87.5 %
Threads 32 0 % 2 93.8 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 54 W 67.3 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 1 MB
2 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 22 MB
1 × 3 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i9-7960X Pentium G3420
Overall Score 65645 0 % 33435 49.1 %
Future Proof 62 % 0 % 37 % 40.3 %
Benchmark Score 18569 0 % 1250 93.3 %
Single Thread Score 2513.5 0 % 1753 30.3 %
Encrypting Data 11127.3 MB/s 0 % 2861.9 MB/s 74.3 %
Compressing Data 474.1 MB/s 0 % 32 MB/s 93.3 %
String objects sorting 58896 thousand/s 0 % 4572.3 thousand/s 92.2 %
Prime numbers generation 102.9 millions/s 0 % 14 millions/s 86.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 106820 millions/s 0 % 6857.7 millions/s 93.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 67605 millions/s 0 % 5268.3 millions/s 92.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7960X, Pentium G3420.

Average frames per second Core i9-7960X Pentium G3420
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 149.7 FPS 54.1 FPS
High settings 239.5 FPS 86.6 FPS
Medium settings 299.3 FPS 108.2 FPS
Low settings 374.1 FPS 135.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 63.8 %

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 i9-7960X Pentium G3420
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 166.3 FPS 109.2 FPS
High settings 266.0 FPS 174.8 FPS
Medium settings 332.5 FPS 218.5 FPS
Low settings 415.7 FPS 273.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 34.3 %
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