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General information Core i5-8400 Core i7-940
Launched Q4 2017 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA1151-2 LGA1366
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Coffee Lake Bloomfield
Clock 2.8 GHz 3.4 % 2.9 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 20 %
Cores 6 0 % 4 33.3 %
Threads 6 25 % 8 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 50 % 130 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 68.9 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 9 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No Yes
Performance Core i5-8400 Core i7-940
Overall Score 49426 0 % 37153 24.8 %
Future Proof 62 % 0 % 10 % 83.9 %
Benchmark Score 5968 0 % 1905 68.1 %
Single Thread Score 2394.9 0 % 1319.2 44.9 %
Encrypting Data 2765.7 MB/s 36.3 % 4341.5 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 127 MB/s 0 % 63.7 MB/s 49.8 %
String objects sorting 16127.7 thousand/s 0 % 8890.2 thousand/s 44.9 %
Prime numbers generation 36.9 millions/s 0 % 22 millions/s 40.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 25532.9 millions/s 0 % 16089.5 millions/s 37 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 22161.2 millions/s 0 % 6936.6 millions/s 68.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-8400, Core i7-940.

Average frames per second Core i5-8400 Core i7-940
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 101.5 FPS 65.1 FPS
High settings 162.5 FPS 104.1 FPS
Medium settings 203.1 FPS 130.2 FPS
Low settings 253.8 FPS 162.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 35.9 %

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 i5-8400 Core i7-940
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 137.6 FPS 116.0 FPS
High settings 220.2 FPS 185.7 FPS
Medium settings 275.2 FPS 232.1 FPS
Low settings 344.1 FPS 290.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 15.7 %
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