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General information Core i5-9500 Core i7-940
Launched Q2 2019 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 Refresh Bloomfield
Clock 3 GHz 0 % 2.9 GHz 3.3 %
Turbo Clock 4.4 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 27.3 %
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 i5-9500 Core i7-940
Overall Score 50193 0 % 37153 26 %
Future Proof 71 % 0 % 10 % 85.9 %
Benchmark Score 6347 0 % 1905 70 %
Single Thread Score 2586.7 0 % 1320.5 49 %
Encrypting Data 3095 MB/s 28.7 % 4342.1 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 135.2 MB/s 0 % 63.4 MB/s 53.1 %
String objects sorting 17234.7 thousand/s 0 % 8810.6 thousand/s 48.9 %
Prime numbers generation 35.1 millions/s 0 % 22 millions/s 37.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 27534.9 millions/s 0 % 16219.5 millions/s 41.1 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23907.2 millions/s 0 % 6909 millions/s 71.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-9500, Core i7-940.

Average frames per second Core i5-9500 Core i7-940
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 103.8 FPS 65.0 FPS
High settings 166.0 FPS 104.1 FPS
Medium settings 207.5 FPS 130.1 FPS
Low settings 259.4 FPS 162.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 37.3 %

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 i5-9500 Core i7-940
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 139.1 FPS 116.0 FPS
High settings 222.5 FPS 185.7 FPS
Medium settings 278.1 FPS 232.1 FPS
Low settings 347.7 FPS 290.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 16.6 %
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