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General information Core i7-3960X Pentium Gold G5420
Launched Q4 2011 Q2 2019
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Pentium Gold
Core Family Name Sandy Bridge-E Coffee Lake
Clock 3.3 GHz 13.2 % 3.8 GHz 0 %
Cores 6 0 % 2 66.7 %
Threads 12 0 % 4 66.7 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 0 % 54 W 58.5 %
Lithography 32 nm 0 % 14 nm 56.3 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
2 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 15 MB
1 × 4 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-3960X Pentium Gold G5420
Overall Score 48276 0 % 39351 18.5 %
Future Proof 27 % 62 % 71 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 5431 0 % 2398 55.8 %
Single Thread Score 1797 20.2 % 2251.5 0 %
Encrypting Data 2539.9 MB/s 0 % 1401.8 MB/s 44.8 %
Compressing Data 138.1 MB/s 0 % 55.9 MB/s 59.5 %
String objects sorting 20963 thousand/s 0 % 7465.7 thousand/s 64.4 %
Prime numbers generation 41.9 millions/s 0 % 14.9 millions/s 64.6 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 32925 millions/s 0 % 12860.5 millions/s 60.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12359.9 millions/s 0 % 8203.8 millions/s 33.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-3960X, Pentium Gold G5420.

Average frames per second Core i7-3960X Pentium Gold G5420
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 98.1 FPS 71.6 FPS
High settings 156.9 FPS 114.5 FPS
Medium settings 196.2 FPS 143.1 FPS
Low settings 245.2 FPS 178.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 27 %

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 i7-3960X Pentium Gold G5420
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 135.6 FPS 119.9 FPS
High settings 217.0 FPS 191.8 FPS
Medium settings 271.2 FPS 239.8 FPS
Low settings 339.0 FPS 299.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 11.6 %
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