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General information Ryzen 5 1600X Core i7-5960X
Launched Q2 2017 Q3 2014
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA2011-v3
Series Name AMD Ryzen 5 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Summit Ridge Haswell-E
Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 16.7 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 12.5 %
Cores 6 25 % 8 0 %
Threads 12 25 % 16 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 W 32.1 % 140 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Data
6 × 64 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 512 kB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 2 × 8 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 5 1600X Core i7-5960X
Overall Score 53908 0 % 53560 0.6 %
Future Proof 59 % 0 % 43 % 27.1 %
Benchmark Score 8445 0 % 8229 2.6 %
Single Thread Score 2213.2 0 % 1986 10.3 %
Encrypting Data 12612.6 MB/s 0 % 3724.6 MB/s 70.5 %
Compressing Data 178.3 MB/s 7.3 % 192.5 MB/s 0 %
String objects sorting 21799.3 thousand/s 22.1 % 27974.5 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 35.1 millions/s 43 % 61.5 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 44984.2 millions/s 4.9 % 47277.7 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23056 millions/s 3.1 % 23784.2 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 5 1600X, Core i7-5960X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 5 1600X Core i7-5960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 114.8 FPS 113.7 FPS
High settings 183.6 FPS 182.0 FPS
Medium settings 229.6 FPS 227.5 FPS
Low settings 286.9 FPS 284.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.9 %

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 Ryzen 5 1600X Core i7-5960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.3 FPS 144.6 FPS
High settings 232.4 FPS 231.4 FPS
Medium settings 290.5 FPS 289.3 FPS
Low settings 363.1 FPS 361.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.4 %
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