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General information Core i5-8500 Core i7-3960X
Launched Q1 2018 Q4 2011
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA1151-2 LGA2011
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Coffee Lake Sandy Bridge-E
Clock 3 GHz 9.1 % 3.3 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.1 GHz 0 % 3.9 GHz 4.9 %
Cores 6 0 % 6 0 %
Threads 6 50 % 12 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 50 % 130 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 56.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 9 MB
1 × 15 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No Yes
Performance Core i5-8500 Core i7-3960X
Overall Score 49874 0 % 48276 3.2 %
Future Proof 63 % 0 % 27 % 57.1 %
Benchmark Score 6187 0 % 5431 12.2 %
Single Thread Score 2467.4 0 % 1813.2 26.5 %
Encrypting Data 2986.8 MB/s 0 % 2539.9 MB/s 15 %
Compressing Data 132.1 MB/s 4.6 % 138.5 MB/s 0 %
String objects sorting 16416.6 thousand/s 21.7 % 20963 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 36.2 millions/s 14 % 42.1 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 26945.9 millions/s 18.5 % 33056.9 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 22567 millions/s 0 % 12347.6 millions/s 45.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-8500, Core i7-3960X.

Average frames per second Core i5-8500 Core i7-3960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 102.8 FPS 98.1 FPS
High settings 164.5 FPS 156.9 FPS
Medium settings 205.6 FPS 196.2 FPS
Low settings 257.0 FPS 245.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 4.6 %

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 i5-8500 Core i7-3960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 138.4 FPS 135.6 FPS
High settings 221.5 FPS 217.0 FPS
Medium settings 276.9 FPS 271.2 FPS
Low settings 346.1 FPS 339.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 2 %
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