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General information Core i7-3960X Pentium E2160
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 % 1.8 GHz 45.5 %
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 E2160
Overall Score 48283 0 % 25343 47.5 %
Future Proof 27 % 0 % 10 % 63 %
Benchmark Score 5435 0 % 412 92.4 %
Single Thread Score 1801.6 0 % 678.4 62.3 %
Encrypting Data 2585.5 MB/s 0 % 943.6 MB/s 63.5 %
Compressing Data 137.8 MB/s 0 % 13.7 MB/s 90.1 %
String objects sorting 21112 thousand/s 0 % 1986.9 thousand/s 90.6 %
Prime numbers generation 42.1 millions/s 0 % 3 millions/s 92.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 33094.9 millions/s 0 % 2557.7 millions/s 92.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12287.3 millions/s 0 % 1415.7 millions/s 88.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-3960X, Pentium E2160.

Average frames per second Core i7-3960X Pentium E2160
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 98.1 FPS 33.5 FPS
High settings 157.0 FPS 53.6 FPS
Medium settings 196.2 FPS 67.0 FPS
Low settings 245.3 FPS 83.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 65.9 %

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 E2160
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 135.5 FPS 94.9 FPS
High settings 216.8 FPS 151.9 FPS
Medium settings 271.1 FPS 189.8 FPS
Low settings 338.8 FPS 237.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 30 %
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