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General information Core i7-3960X Athlon X4 740
Launched Q4 2011 Q4 2012
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA2011 FM2
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme AMD Athlon X4
Core Family Name Sandy Bridge-E Richland
Clock 3.3 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 3 %
Turbo Clock 3.9 GHz 0 % 3.7 GHz 5.1 %
Cores 6 0 % 4 33.3 %
Threads 12 0 % 4 66.7 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 0 % 65 W 50 %
Lithography 32 nm 0 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
4 × 16 kB Data
2 × 64 kB Instruction
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
2 × 2 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-3960X Athlon X4 740
Overall Score 48276 0 % 36117 25.2 %
Future Proof 27 % 18.2 % 33 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 5431 0 % 1702 68.7 %
Single Thread Score 1797 0 % 1360.4 24.3 %
Encrypting Data 2539.9 MB/s 35.1 % 3913 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 138.1 MB/s 0 % 42.6 MB/s 69.1 %
String objects sorting 20963 thousand/s 0 % 5444.5 thousand/s 74 %
Prime numbers generation 41.9 millions/s 0 % 11.1 millions/s 73.5 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 32925 millions/s 0 % 17831.5 millions/s 45.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12359.9 millions/s 0 % 4721.5 millions/s 61.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-3960X, Athlon X4 740.

Average frames per second Core i7-3960X Athlon X4 740
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 98.1 FPS 62.0 FPS
High settings 156.9 FPS 99.2 FPS
Medium settings 196.2 FPS 124.0 FPS
Low settings 245.2 FPS 155.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 36.8 %

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 Athlon X4 740
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 135.6 FPS 114.2 FPS
High settings 217.0 FPS 182.7 FPS
Medium settings 271.2 FPS 228.4 FPS
Low settings 339.0 FPS 285.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 15.8 %
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