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General information Core i7-950 Athlon X4 740
Launched Q2 2009 Q4 2012
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA1366 FM2
Series Name Intel Core i7 AMD Athlon X4
Core Family Name Bloomfield Richland
Clock 3.1 GHz 3.1 % 3.2 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.3 GHz 10.8 % 3.7 GHz 0 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 8 0 % 4 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 0 % 65 W 50 %
Lithography 45 nm 0 % 32 nm 28.9 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
4 × 16 kB Data
2 × 64 kB Instruction
L2 Cache 4 × 256 kB
2 × 2 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-950 Athlon X4 740
Overall Score 38045 0 % 36206 4.8 %
Future Proof 13 % 60.6 % 33 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 2095 0 % 1718 18 %
Single Thread Score 1372.7 0 % 1354.9 1.3 %
Encrypting Data 4519.5 MB/s 0 % 3648 MB/s 19.3 %
Compressing Data 69.2 MB/s 0 % 42.5 MB/s 38.5 %
String objects sorting 9540.7 thousand/s 0 % 5428.2 thousand/s 43.1 %
Prime numbers generation 22 millions/s 0 % 10.9 millions/s 50.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 17301.2 millions/s 1.6 % 17583.9 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 7270.8 millions/s 0 % 4792.8 millions/s 34.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-950, Athlon X4 740.

Average frames per second Core i7-950 Athlon X4 740
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 67.4 FPS 62.0 FPS
High settings 107.9 FPS 99.2 FPS
Medium settings 134.8 FPS 124.0 FPS
Low settings 168.6 FPS 154.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 8.1 %

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 i7-950 Athlon X4 740
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 117.3 FPS 114.1 FPS
High settings 187.7 FPS 182.5 FPS
Medium settings 234.6 FPS 228.2 FPS
Low settings 293.2 FPS 285.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 2.7 %
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