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General information Core i5-6500 Core i7-940
Launched Q3 2015 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1151 LGA1366
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Skylake-S Bloomfield
Clock 3.2 GHz 0 % 2.9 GHz 9.4 %
Turbo Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 11.1 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 4 50 % 8 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 50 % 130 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 68.9 % 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 i5-6500 Core i7-940
Overall Score 43679 0 % 37153 14.9 %
Future Proof 49 % 0 % 10 % 79.6 %
Benchmark Score 3640 0 % 1905 47.7 %
Single Thread Score 2114.2 0 % 1320.5 37.5 %
Encrypting Data 1654 MB/s 62.3 % 4384.9 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 74.6 MB/s 0 % 63.8 MB/s 14.5 %
String objects sorting 9453.5 thousand/s 0 % 8819.5 thousand/s 6.7 %
Prime numbers generation 27.8 millions/s 0 % 21.8 millions/s 21.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 14562.7 millions/s 10.6 % 16284.5 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12392.7 millions/s 0 % 6888.3 millions/s 44.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-6500, Core i7-940.

Average frames per second Core i5-6500 Core i7-940
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 84.4 FPS 65.0 FPS
High settings 135.1 FPS 104.1 FPS
Medium settings 168.8 FPS 130.1 FPS
Low settings 211.1 FPS 162.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 23 %

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 i5-6500 Core i7-940
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 127.4 FPS 116.0 FPS
High settings 203.9 FPS 185.5 FPS
Medium settings 254.8 FPS 231.9 FPS
Low settings 318.5 FPS 289.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 9 %
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