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General information Core i3-540 A9-9420
Launched Q1 2010 Q3 2017
Used in Desktop Mobile
Factory Intel AMD
Clock 3.1 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 3.2 %
Cores 2 0 % 2 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 73 W 0 % 15 W 79.5 %
Performance Core i3-540 A9-9420
Overall Score 31640 0 % 31442 0.6 %
Future Proof 17 % 71.7 % 60 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 1002 0 % 977 2.5 %
Single Thread Score 1267.2 1 % 1280.3 0 %
Encrypting Data 2140.4 MB/s 0 % 2091.6 MB/s 2.3 %
Compressing Data 32.7 MB/s 0 % 23.3 MB/s 28.9 %
String objects sorting 4521.3 thousand/s 0 % 2610.2 thousand/s 42.3 %
Prime numbers generation 10.1 millions/s 0 % 5 millions/s 50.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 7998.4 millions/s 0.8 % 8063.9 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 3489.5 millions/s 0 % 2508 millions/s 28.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i3-540, A9-9420.

Average frames per second Core i3-540 A9-9420
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 48.6 FPS 48.0 FPS
High settings 77.7 FPS 76.7 FPS
Medium settings 97.1 FPS 95.9 FPS
Low settings 121.4 FPS 119.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 1.2 %

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 i3-540 A9-9420
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 106.0 FPS 105.7 FPS
High settings 169.6 FPS 169.0 FPS
Medium settings 212.1 FPS 211.3 FPS
Low settings 265.1 FPS 264.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.4 %
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