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General information Core i7-3970X Pentium Gold G6500
Launched Q1 2012 Q4 2020
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011 FCLGA1200
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme Intel Pentium Gold
Core Family Name Sandy Bridge-E Comet Lake
Clock 3.5 GHz 14.6 % 4.1 GHz 0 %
Cores 6 0 % 2 66.7 %
Threads 12 0 % 4 66.7 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 W 0 % 58 W 61.3 %
Lithography 32 nm 0 % 14 nm 56.3 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
2 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 15 MB
1 × 4 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-3970X Pentium Gold G6500
Overall Score 48362 0 % 40460 16.3 %
Future Proof 28 % 64.6 % 79 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 5470 0 % 2680 51 %
Single Thread Score 1827.1 26.2 % 2476.5 0 %
Encrypting Data 2712.2 MB/s 0 % 1561.1 MB/s 42.4 %
Compressing Data 144.2 MB/s 0 % 63.3 MB/s 56.1 %
String objects sorting 21423.6 thousand/s 0 % 8334.5 thousand/s 61.1 %
Prime numbers generation 39.8 millions/s 0 % 14.9 millions/s 62.6 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 31984.5 millions/s 0 % 14444.1 millions/s 54.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12800 millions/s 0 % 8874 millions/s 30.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-3970X, Pentium Gold G6500.

Average frames per second Core i7-3970X Pentium Gold G6500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 98.3 FPS 74.9 FPS
High settings 157.3 FPS 119.8 FPS
Medium settings 196.7 FPS 149.8 FPS
Low settings 245.9 FPS 187.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 23.8 %

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 Core i7-3970X Pentium Gold G6500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 135.8 FPS 121.9 FPS
High settings 217.3 FPS 195.0 FPS
Medium settings 271.6 FPS 243.8 FPS
Low settings 339.5 FPS 304.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 10.2 %
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