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General information Core i7-3970X Pentium Gold G6605
Launched Q1 2012 Q3 2021
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 18.6 % 4.3 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 G6605
Overall Score 48362 0 % 41321 14.6 %
Future Proof 28 % 66.7 % 84 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 5470 0 % 2915 46.7 %
Single Thread Score 1838.2 29.5 % 2608.5 0 %
Encrypting Data 2682.6 MB/s 0 % 1673.3 MB/s 37.6 %
Compressing Data 143.7 MB/s 0 % 66.6 MB/s 53.6 %
String objects sorting 21252 thousand/s 0 % 8622 thousand/s 59.4 %
Prime numbers generation 39.9 millions/s 0 % 20 millions/s 49.8 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 32369.9 millions/s 0 % 14950 millions/s 53.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12851 millions/s 0 % 9517 millions/s 25.9 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-3970X, Pentium Gold G6605.

Average frames per second Core i7-3970X Pentium Gold G6605
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 98.3 FPS 77.4 FPS
High settings 157.3 FPS 123.9 FPS
Medium settings 196.7 FPS 154.8 FPS
Low settings 245.9 FPS 193.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 21.3 %

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 G6605
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 135.8 FPS 123.4 FPS
High settings 217.2 FPS 197.4 FPS
Medium settings 271.5 FPS 246.7 FPS
Low settings 339.4 FPS 308.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 9.1 %
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