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General information Core i5-6500 Core i7-965
Launched Q3 2015 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1151 LGA1366
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Skylake-S Bloomfield
Clock 3.2 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 2.8 %
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 i7-965
Overall Score 43791 0 % 38667 11.7 %
Future Proof 49 % 0 % 10 % 79.6 %
Benchmark Score 3678 0 % 2235 39.2 %
Single Thread Score 2119.4 0 % 1476.5 30.3 %
Encrypting Data 1667.3 MB/s 65.3 % 4798.4 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 75.9 MB/s 0 % 74.6 MB/s 1.7 %
String objects sorting 9493 thousand/s 6.8 % 10181.6 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 27.9 millions/s 0 % 25.2 millions/s 9.8 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 14778.5 millions/s 19.5 % 18361.2 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12519.3 millions/s 0 % 7741.3 millions/s 38.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-6500, Core i7-965.

Average frames per second Core i5-6500 Core i7-965
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 84.4 FPS 69.2 FPS
High settings 135.0 FPS 110.7 FPS
Medium settings 168.8 FPS 138.4 FPS
Low settings 211.0 FPS 173.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 18 %

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 i7-965
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 127.4 FPS 118.4 FPS
High settings 203.9 FPS 189.4 FPS
Medium settings 254.9 FPS 236.8 FPS
Low settings 318.6 FPS 296.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 7.1 %
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