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General information Core i5-3450 Core2 Quad Q9300
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 Yorkfield
Clock 3.1 GHz 0 % 2.5 GHz 19.4 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 4 0 % 4 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 77 W 18.9 % 95 W 0 %
Lithography 22 nm 51.1 % 45 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 × 3 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Core i5-3450 Core2 Quad Q9300
Overall Score 41298 0 % 33594 18.7 %
Future Proof 30 % 0 % 10 % 66.7 %
Benchmark Score 2909 0 % 1274 56.2 %
Single Thread Score 1874.7 0 % 1078.9 42.4 %
Encrypting Data 1126.7 MB/s 61.6 % 2931.2 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 68.9 MB/s 0 % 42.1 MB/s 38.8 %
String objects sorting 8805.8 thousand/s 0 % 5741.7 thousand/s 34.8 %
Prime numbers generation 28 millions/s 0 % 8.9 millions/s 68.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 14317.9 millions/s 0 % 9337.9 millions/s 34.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 10535.4 millions/s 0 % 5453.3 millions/s 48.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-3450, Core2 Quad Q9300.

Average frames per second Core i5-3450 Core2 Quad Q9300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 77.3 FPS 54.6 FPS
High settings 123.8 FPS 87.3 FPS
Medium settings 154.7 FPS 109.2 FPS
Low settings 193.4 FPS 136.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 29.4 %

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 Q9300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 123.2 FPS 109.7 FPS
High settings 197.2 FPS 175.5 FPS
Medium settings 246.5 FPS 219.4 FPS
Low settings 308.1 FPS 274.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 11 %
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