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General information A8-5600K Athlon X4 740
Launched Q4 2012 Q4 2012
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD AMD
Socket FM2 FM2
Series Name AMD A8 AMD Athlon X4
Core Family Name Trinity Richland
Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 11.1 %
Turbo Clock 3.9 GHz 0 % 3.7 GHz 5.1 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 4 0 % 4 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 W 0 % 65 W 35 %
Lithography 32 nm 0 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 16 kB Data
2 × 64 kB Instruction
4 × 16 kB Data
2 × 64 kB Instruction
L2 Cache 1 × 4 MB
2 × 2 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance A8-5600K Athlon X4 740
Overall Score 36920 0 % 36206 1.9 %
Future Proof 33 % 0 % 33 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 1858 0 % 1718 7.5 %
Single Thread Score 1431.9 0 % 1354.9 5.4 %
Encrypting Data 3976.5 MB/s 0 % 3648 MB/s 8.3 %
Compressing Data 46.9 MB/s 0 % 42.5 MB/s 9.2 %
String objects sorting 5999.4 thousand/s 0 % 5428.2 thousand/s 9.5 %
Prime numbers generation 11 millions/s 0 % 10.9 millions/s 0.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 18948.7 millions/s 0 % 17583.9 millions/s 7.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 4920.3 millions/s 0 % 4792.8 millions/s 2.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for A8-5600K, Athlon X4 740.

Average frames per second A8-5600K Athlon X4 740
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 64.0 FPS 62.0 FPS
High settings 102.5 FPS 99.2 FPS
Medium settings 128.1 FPS 124.0 FPS
Low settings 160.1 FPS 154.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 3.2 %

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 A8-5600K Athlon X4 740
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 115.3 FPS 114.1 FPS
High settings 184.5 FPS 182.5 FPS
Medium settings 230.6 FPS 228.2 FPS
Low settings 288.3 FPS 285.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 1.1 %
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