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General information Core i5-3450S Core i7-940
Launched Q2 2012 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1155 LGA1366
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Ivy Bridge Bloomfield
Clock 2.8 GHz 3.4 % 2.9 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 8.6 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 4 50 % 8 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 50 % 130 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
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 6 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No Yes
Performance Core i5-3450S Core i7-940
Overall Score 41010 0 % 37153 9.4 %
Future Proof 30 % 0 % 10 % 66.7 %
Benchmark Score 2829 0 % 1905 32.7 %
Single Thread Score 1865.5 0 % 1320.5 29.2 %
Encrypting Data 1093.7 MB/s 75.1 % 4384.9 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 65.9 MB/s 0 % 63.8 MB/s 3.2 %
String objects sorting 8700.4 thousand/s 1.4 % 8819.5 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 27.9 millions/s 0 % 21.8 millions/s 21.8 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 13851.6 millions/s 14.9 % 16284.5 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 10036.7 millions/s 0 % 6888.3 millions/s 31.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-3450S, Core i7-940.

Average frames per second Core i5-3450S Core i7-940
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 76.5 FPS 65.0 FPS
High settings 122.4 FPS 104.1 FPS
Medium settings 153.0 FPS 130.1 FPS
Low settings 191.2 FPS 162.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 15 %

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 i5-3450S Core i7-940
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 122.7 FPS 116.0 FPS
High settings 196.4 FPS 185.5 FPS
Medium settings 245.5 FPS 231.9 FPS
Low settings 306.8 FPS 289.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 5.5 %
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