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General information Core i7-4790 A8-6600K
Launched Q2 2014 Q2 2013
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket FCLGA1150 FM2
Series Name Intel Core i7 AMD A8
Core Family Name Haswell Refresh Richland
Clock 3.6 GHz 7.7 % 3.9 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 4.8 % 4.2 GHz 0 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 8 0 % 4 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 84 W 16 % 100 W 0 %
Lithography 22 nm 31.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
4 × 16 kB Data
2 × 64 kB Instruction
L2 Cache 4 × 256 kB
2 × 1 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Integrated GPU Intel HD Graphics 4600 Radeon HD 8570D
Performance Core i7-4790 A8-6600K
Overall Score 46560 0 % 37359 19.8 %
Future Proof 42 % 0 % 36 % 14.3 %
Benchmark Score 4700 0 % 1948 58.6 %
Single Thread Score 2227.3 0 % 1541.1 30.8 %
Encrypting Data 2013.8 MB/s 54.4 % 4420.9 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 106.2 MB/s 0 % 50.9 MB/s 52.1 %
String objects sorting 15100.7 thousand/s 0 % 6369.2 thousand/s 57.8 %
Prime numbers generation 31.8 millions/s 0 % 11 millions/s 65.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 26391.4 millions/s 0 % 19990.9 millions/s 24.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 13139.1 millions/s 0 % 5316.5 millions/s 59.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-4790, A8-6600K.

Average frames per second Core i7-4790 A8-6600K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 93.0 FPS 65.7 FPS
High settings 148.8 FPS 105.1 FPS
Medium settings 186.0 FPS 131.3 FPS
Low settings 232.5 FPS 164.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 29.4 %

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 i7-4790 A8-6600K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 132.5 FPS 116.3 FPS
High settings 212.0 FPS 186.1 FPS
Medium settings 265.0 FPS 232.6 FPS
Low settings 331.2 FPS 290.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 12.2 %
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