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General information Core i7-3970X Pentium E6800
Launched Q1 2012 Q4 2010
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011 LGA775
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Pentium
Core Family Name Sandy Bridge-E Wolfdale
Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 3.3 GHz 5.7 %
Cores 6 0 % 2 66.7 %
Threads 12 0 % 2 83.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 W 0 % 65 W 56.7 %
Lithography 32 nm 28.9 % 45 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 × 2 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-3970X Pentium E6800
Overall Score 48397 0 % 29453 39.1 %
Future Proof 28 % 0 % 21 % 25 %
Benchmark Score 5486 0 % 753 86.3 %
Single Thread Score 1836.6 0 % 1310.1 28.7 %
Encrypting Data 2696.4 MB/s 0 % 1706.3 MB/s 36.7 %
Compressing Data 142 MB/s 0 % 25.3 MB/s 82.2 %
String objects sorting 21188.6 thousand/s 0 % 3455.8 thousand/s 83.7 %
Prime numbers generation 41.2 millions/s 0 % 4 millions/s 90.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 31935 millions/s 0 % 5397.1 millions/s 83.1 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12660.9 millions/s 0 % 3188.5 millions/s 74.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-3970X, Pentium E6800.

Average frames per second Core i7-3970X Pentium E6800
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 98.4 FPS 42.4 FPS
High settings 157.5 FPS 67.8 FPS
Medium settings 196.9 FPS 84.7 FPS
Low settings 246.1 FPS 105.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 57 %

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 i7-3970X Pentium E6800
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 135.8 FPS 102.2 FPS
High settings 217.2 FPS 163.5 FPS
Medium settings 271.5 FPS 204.4 FPS
Low settings 339.4 FPS 255.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 24.7 %
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