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General information Core i7-3960X Pentium E2140
Launched Q4 2011 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011 LGA775
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Pentium
Core Family Name Sandy Bridge-E Conroe
Clock 3.3 GHz 0 % 1.6 GHz 51.5 %
Cores 6 0 % 2 66.7 %
Threads 12 0 % 2 83.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 0 % 65 W 50 %
Lithography 32 nm 50.8 % 65 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
1 × 1 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-3960X Pentium E2140
Overall Score 48283 0 % 24296 49.7 %
Future Proof 27 % 0 % 10 % 63 %
Benchmark Score 5435 0 % 348 93.6 %
Single Thread Score 1796.2 0 % 600.2 66.6 %
Encrypting Data 2583 MB/s 0 % 793.3 MB/s 69.3 %
Compressing Data 137 MB/s 0 % 11.9 MB/s 91.3 %
String objects sorting 21175.1 thousand/s 0 % 1710.7 thousand/s 91.9 %
Prime numbers generation 41.7 millions/s 0 % 2 millions/s 95.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 33127.8 millions/s 0 % 1961.1 millions/s 94.1 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12275 millions/s 0 % 1351.1 millions/s 89 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-3960X, Pentium E2140.

Average frames per second Core i7-3960X Pentium E2140
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 98.1 FPS 31.8 FPS
High settings 157.0 FPS 50.9 FPS
Medium settings 196.2 FPS 63.7 FPS
Low settings 245.3 FPS 79.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 67.5 %

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 E2140
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 135.5 FPS 93.0 FPS
High settings 216.8 FPS 148.9 FPS
Medium settings 271.1 FPS 186.1 FPS
Low settings 338.8 FPS 232.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 31.3 %
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