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General information Core i5-4590S Core i7-940
Launched Q2 2014 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1150 LGA1366
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Haswell Refresh Bloomfield
Clock 3 GHz 0 % 2.9 GHz 3.3 %
Turbo Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 13.5 %
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 i5-4590S Core i7-940
Overall Score 42685 0 % 37152 13 %
Future Proof 42 % 0 % 10 % 76.2 %
Benchmark Score 3320 0 % 1905 42.6 %
Single Thread Score 2050.1 0 % 1304.8 36.4 %
Encrypting Data 1261.4 MB/s 70.9 % 4328.6 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 72 MB/s 0 % 63.1 MB/s 12.4 %
String objects sorting 9828.5 thousand/s 0 % 8810.6 thousand/s 10.4 %
Prime numbers generation 31 millions/s 0 % 22.1 millions/s 28.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 15049.6 millions/s 7.4 % 16252 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 11456.4 millions/s 0 % 6874.5 millions/s 40 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-4590S, Core i7-940.

Average frames per second Core i5-4590S Core i7-940
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 81.4 FPS 65.0 FPS
High settings 130.3 FPS 104.1 FPS
Medium settings 162.9 FPS 130.1 FPS
Low settings 203.6 FPS 162.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 20.1 %

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 i5-4590S Core i7-940
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 125.6 FPS 115.8 FPS
High settings 201.0 FPS 185.3 FPS
Medium settings 251.2 FPS 231.6 FPS
Low settings 314.0 FPS 289.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 7.8 %
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