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General information Core i5-4590S Core2 Quad Q6600
Launched Q2 2014 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1150 LGA775
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Core 2 Quad
Core Family Name Haswell Refresh Kentsfield
Clock 3 GHz 0 % 2.4 GHz 20 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 4 0 % 4 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 38.1 % 105 W 0 %
Lithography 22 nm 66.2 % 65 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 4 × 256 kB
2 × 4 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Core i5-4590S Core2 Quad Q6600
Overall Score 42679 0 % 32899 22.9 %
Future Proof 42 % 0 % 10 % 76.2 %
Benchmark Score 3318 0 % 1171 64.7 %
Single Thread Score 2040.9 0 % 946.2 53.6 %
Encrypting Data 1255.3 MB/s 53.5 % 2698.4 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 71.9 MB/s 0 % 38.9 MB/s 45.9 %
String objects sorting 9867 thousand/s 0 % 5298.9 thousand/s 46.3 %
Prime numbers generation 31.2 millions/s 0 % 10.1 millions/s 67.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 15016.4 millions/s 0 % 7900.7 millions/s 47.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 11452.5 millions/s 0 % 3967.7 millions/s 65.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-4590S, Core2 Quad Q6600.

Average frames per second Core i5-4590S Core2 Quad Q6600
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 81.4 FPS 52.5 FPS
High settings 130.3 FPS 84.0 FPS
Medium settings 162.9 FPS 105.0 FPS
Low settings 203.6 FPS 131.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 35.5 %

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 i5-4590S Core2 Quad Q6600
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 125.7 FPS 108.4 FPS
High settings 201.1 FPS 173.5 FPS
Medium settings 251.4 FPS 216.9 FPS
Low settings 314.2 FPS 271.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.7 %
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