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General information Core i5-10500 Core i7-3970X
Launched Q2 2020 Q1 2012
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA1200 LGA2011
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Comet Lake Sandy Bridge-E
Clock 3.1 GHz 11.4 % 3.5 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.5 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 11.1 %
Cores 6 0 % 6 0 %
Threads 12 0 % 12 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 56.7 % 150 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 56.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 12 MB
1 × 15 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i5-10500 Core i7-3970X
Overall Score 54040 0 % 48362 10.5 %
Future Proof 76 % 0 % 28 % 63.2 %
Benchmark Score 8528 0 % 5470 35.9 %
Single Thread Score 2803.2 0 % 1849.2 34 %
Encrypting Data 4980 MB/s 0 % 2663.8 MB/s 46.5 %
Compressing Data 199.1 MB/s 0 % 144.4 MB/s 27.5 %
String objects sorting 25464.8 thousand/s 0 % 21573.7 thousand/s 15.3 %
Prime numbers generation 34.9 millions/s 12 % 39.6 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 44966.7 millions/s 0 % 31856.1 millions/s 29.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 28077.4 millions/s 0 % 12800 millions/s 54.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-10500, Core i7-3970X.

Average frames per second Core i5-10500 Core i7-3970X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 115.2 FPS 98.3 FPS
High settings 184.3 FPS 157.3 FPS
Medium settings 230.3 FPS 196.7 FPS
Low settings 287.9 FPS 245.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 14.6 %

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 i5-10500 Core i7-3970X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.8 FPS 135.7 FPS
High settings 233.2 FPS 217.2 FPS
Medium settings 291.5 FPS 271.4 FPS
Low settings 364.4 FPS 339.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 6.9 %
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