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General information Core i7-5960X FX-8350
Launched Q3 2014 Q4 2012
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA2011-v3 AM3+
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme AMD FX
Core Family Name Haswell-E Vishera
Clock 3 GHz 25 % 4 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.5 GHz 16.7 % 4.2 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 8 0 %
Threads 16 0 % 8 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 125 W 10.7 %
Lithography 22 nm 31.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
4 × 64 kB Instruction
8 × 16 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
4 × 2 MB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-5960X FX-8350
Overall Score 53679 0 % 44597 16.9 %
Future Proof 43 % 0 % 33 % 23.3 %
Benchmark Score 8302 0 % 3956 52.3 %
Single Thread Score 1969.1 0 % 1593.7 19.1 %
Encrypting Data 3699.7 MB/s 0 % 1876.9 MB/s 49.3 %
Compressing Data 193 MB/s 0 % 102.3 MB/s 47 %
String objects sorting 27865.6 thousand/s 0 % 12938.5 thousand/s 53.6 %
Prime numbers generation 62.4 millions/s 0 % 30.2 millions/s 51.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47622.7 millions/s 0 % 41274.2 millions/s 13.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23525.3 millions/s 0 % 10989 millions/s 53.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-5960X, FX-8350.

Average frames per second Core i7-5960X FX-8350
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 113.6 FPS 86.8 FPS
High settings 181.8 FPS 138.9 FPS
Medium settings 227.3 FPS 173.6 FPS
Low settings 284.1 FPS 217.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 23.6 %

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 i7-5960X FX-8350
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.9 FPS 128.9 FPS
High settings 231.8 FPS 206.2 FPS
Medium settings 289.8 FPS 257.7 FPS
Low settings 362.2 FPS 322.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 11.1 %
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