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General information Core i7-3970X Athlon 240GE
Launched Q1 2012 Q1 2019
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA2011 AM4
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme AMD Athlon
Core Family Name Sandy Bridge-E Raven Ridge
Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 0 %
Cores 6 0 % 2 66.7 %
Threads 12 0 % 4 66.7 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 W 0 % 35 W 76.7 %
Lithography 32 nm 0 % 14 nm 56.3 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
2 × 32 kB Data
2 × 64 kB Instruction
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
2 × 512 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 15 MB
1 × 4 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-3970X Athlon 240GE
Overall Score 48362 0 % 41378 14.4 %
Future Proof 28 % 59.4 % 69 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 5470 0 % 2931 46.4 %
Single Thread Score 1827.1 6.5 % 1954.2 0 %
Encrypting Data 2712.2 MB/s 31.3 % 3947.2 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 144.2 MB/s 0 % 57.1 MB/s 60.4 %
String objects sorting 21423.6 thousand/s 0 % 6945 thousand/s 67.6 %
Prime numbers generation 39.8 millions/s 0 % 12.1 millions/s 69.6 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 31984.5 millions/s 0 % 13915.1 millions/s 56.5 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12800 millions/s 0 % 7221.9 millions/s 43.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-3970X, Athlon 240GE.

Average frames per second Core i7-3970X Athlon 240GE
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 98.3 FPS 77.6 FPS
High settings 157.3 FPS 124.2 FPS
Medium settings 196.7 FPS 155.2 FPS
Low settings 245.9 FPS 194.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 21.1 %

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 i7-3970X Athlon 240GE
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 135.8 FPS 123.5 FPS
High settings 217.3 FPS 197.6 FPS
Medium settings 271.6 FPS 247.0 FPS
Low settings 339.5 FPS 308.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 9.1 %
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