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General information Athlon X4 740 Core2 Quad Q9650
Launched Q4 2012 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket FM2 LGA775
Series Name AMD Athlon X4 Intel Core 2 Quad
Core Family Name Richland Yorkfield
Clock 3.2 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 6.3 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 4 0 % 4 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 31.6 % 95 W 0 %
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 × 2 MB
2 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Athlon X4 740 Core2 Quad Q9650
Overall Score 36120 0 % 35548 1.6 %
Future Proof 33 % 0 % 10 % 69.7 %
Benchmark Score 1702 0 % 1597 6.2 %
Single Thread Score 1357.6 0 % 1290.7 4.9 %
Encrypting Data 3921.3 MB/s 0 % 3667.6 MB/s 6.5 %
Compressing Data 42.8 MB/s 15.8 % 50.8 MB/s 0 %
String objects sorting 5374.1 thousand/s 22 % 6886.3 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 10.9 millions/s 42.1 % 18.8 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 17583.9 millions/s 0 % 11272.7 millions/s 35.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 4740.5 millions/s 25.2 % 6341.3 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Athlon X4 740, Core2 Quad Q9650.

Average frames per second Athlon X4 740 Core2 Quad Q9650
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 62.0 FPS 60.3 FPS
High settings 99.2 FPS 96.5 FPS
Medium settings 124.0 FPS 120.6 FPS
Low settings 155.0 FPS 150.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 2.8 %

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 Athlon X4 740 Core2 Quad Q9650
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 114.0 FPS 113.1 FPS
High settings 182.5 FPS 180.9 FPS
Medium settings 228.1 FPS 226.1 FPS
Low settings 285.1 FPS 282.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.9 %
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