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General information Core i7-6900K Core i5-3550
Launched Q2 2016 Q1 2012
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2011-3 LGA1155
Series Name Intel Core i7 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Broadwell-E Ivy Bridge
Clock 3.2 GHz 3 % 3.3 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.7 GHz 7.5 %
Cores 8 0 % 4 50 %
Threads 16 0 % 4 75 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 77 W 45 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-6900K Core i5-3550
Overall Score 55285 0 % 41987 24.1 %
Future Proof 53 % 0 % 28 % 47.2 %
Benchmark Score 9342 0 % 3108 66.7 %
Single Thread Score 2359 0 % 2007 14.9 %
Encrypting Data 4019.5 MB/s 0 % 1227.3 MB/s 69.5 %
Compressing Data 219.3 MB/s 0 % 74 MB/s 66.3 %
String objects sorting 28445.6 thousand/s 0 % 9436.2 thousand/s 66.8 %
Prime numbers generation 64.1 millions/s 0 % 29.2 millions/s 54.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 51114.1 millions/s 0 % 15259.7 millions/s 70.1 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 33123.4 millions/s 0 % 11270.3 millions/s 66 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-6900K, Core i5-3550.

Average frames per second Core i7-6900K Core i5-3550
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 118.9 FPS 79.4 FPS
High settings 190.3 FPS 127.1 FPS
Medium settings 237.8 FPS 158.8 FPS
Low settings 297.3 FPS 198.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 33.2 %

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 i7-6900K Core i5-3550
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 147.9 FPS 124.6 FPS
High settings 236.7 FPS 199.3 FPS
Medium settings 295.8 FPS 249.1 FPS
Low settings 369.8 FPS 311.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 15.8 %
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