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General information A8-6600K Core2 Quad Q9300
Launched Q2 2013 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket FM2 LGA775
Series Name AMD A8 Intel Core 2 Quad
Core Family Name Richland Yorkfield
Clock 3.9 GHz 0 % 2.5 GHz 35.9 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 4 0 % 4 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 W 0 % 95 W 5 %
Lithography 32 nm 28.9 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 16 kB Data
2 × 64 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 2 × 1 MB
2 × 3 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance A8-6600K Core2 Quad Q9300
Overall Score 37356 0 % 33590 10.1 %
Future Proof 36 % 0 % 10 % 72.2 %
Benchmark Score 1947 0 % 1273 34.6 %
Single Thread Score 1545.7 0 % 1084.3 29.8 %
Encrypting Data 4473.5 MB/s 0 % 2892.4 MB/s 35.3 %
Compressing Data 50.9 MB/s 0 % 42.7 MB/s 16.1 %
String objects sorting 6395.9 thousand/s 0 % 5774.1 thousand/s 9.7 %
Prime numbers generation 11.1 millions/s 0 % 9 millions/s 19.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 20145.2 millions/s 0 % 9226 millions/s 54.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 5280.4 millions/s 1.9 % 5382 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for A8-6600K, Core2 Quad Q9300.

Average frames per second A8-6600K Core2 Quad Q9300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 65.7 FPS 54.5 FPS
High settings 105.0 FPS 87.2 FPS
Medium settings 131.3 FPS 109.0 FPS
Low settings 164.1 FPS 136.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 17 %

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 A8-6600K Core2 Quad Q9300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 116.4 FPS 109.8 FPS
High settings 186.3 FPS 175.6 FPS
Medium settings 232.8 FPS 219.5 FPS
Low settings 291.0 FPS 274.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 5.7 %
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