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General information Core i7-980 Core i5-6500
Launched Q3 2011 Q3 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1366 LGA1151
Series Name Intel Core i7 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Gulftown Skylake-S
Clock 3.3 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 3 %
Turbo Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3.6 GHz 0 %
Cores 6 0 % 4 33.3 %
Threads 12 0 % 4 66.7 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 0 % 65 W 50 %
Lithography 32 nm 0 % 14 nm 56.3 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 12 MB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-980 Core i5-6500
Overall Score 46001 0 % 43679 5 %
Future Proof 26 % 46.9 % 49 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 4478 0 % 3640 18.7 %
Single Thread Score 1534.4 26.8 % 2095.2 0 %
Encrypting Data 2682.6 MB/s 0 % 1679 MB/s 37.4 %
Compressing Data 116.8 MB/s 0 % 75.5 MB/s 35.3 %
String objects sorting 15957.3 thousand/s 0 % 9368.4 thousand/s 41.3 %
Prime numbers generation 31.8 millions/s 0 % 28 millions/s 12 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 29265 millions/s 0 % 14740.1 millions/s 49.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12257.4 millions/s 0.6 % 12329.5 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-980, Core i5-6500.

Average frames per second Core i7-980 Core i5-6500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 91.3 FPS 84.4 FPS
High settings 146.1 FPS 135.1 FPS
Medium settings 182.6 FPS 168.8 FPS
Low settings 228.3 FPS 211.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 7.6 %

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 i7-980 Core i5-6500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 131.7 FPS 127.6 FPS
High settings 210.6 FPS 204.1 FPS
Medium settings 263.3 FPS 255.1 FPS
Low settings 329.1 FPS 318.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 3.1 %
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