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General information Core i5-3450 Core2 Quad Q6600
Launched Q2 2012 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1155 LGA775
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Core 2 Quad
Core Family Name Ivy Bridge Kentsfield
Clock 3.1 GHz 0 % 2.4 GHz 22.6 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 4 0 % 4 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 77 W 26.7 % 105 W 0 %
Lithography 22 nm 66.2 % 65 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 4 × 256 kB
2 × 4 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Core i5-3450 Core2 Quad Q6600
Overall Score 41298 0 % 32899 20.3 %
Future Proof 30 % 0 % 10 % 66.7 %
Benchmark Score 2909 0 % 1171 59.7 %
Single Thread Score 1861.7 0 % 946.2 49.2 %
Encrypting Data 1124.5 MB/s 58.3 % 2698.4 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 68.3 MB/s 0 % 38.9 MB/s 43.1 %
String objects sorting 8788.2 thousand/s 0 % 5298.9 thousand/s 39.7 %
Prime numbers generation 28.1 millions/s 0 % 10.1 millions/s 64.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 14217.4 millions/s 0 % 7900.7 millions/s 44.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 10399.1 millions/s 0 % 3967.7 millions/s 61.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-3450, Core2 Quad Q6600.

Average frames per second Core i5-3450 Core2 Quad Q6600
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 77.3 FPS 52.5 FPS
High settings 123.8 FPS 84.0 FPS
Medium settings 154.7 FPS 105.0 FPS
Low settings 193.4 FPS 131.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 32.1 %

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 i5-3450 Core2 Quad Q6600
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 123.3 FPS 108.4 FPS
High settings 197.3 FPS 173.5 FPS
Medium settings 246.6 FPS 216.9 FPS
Low settings 308.3 FPS 271.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 12.1 %
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