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General information Ryzen 7 3700X Core i7-5960X
Launched Q3 2019 Q3 2014
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA2011-v3
Series Name AMD Ryzen 7 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Matisse Haswell-E
Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 16.7 %
Turbo Clock 4.4 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 20.5 %
Cores 8 0 % 8 0 %
Threads 16 0 % 16 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 53.6 % 140 W 0 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 64 GB 50 %
Lithography 7 nm 68.2 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 64 kB Data
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 512 kB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 2 × 16 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 7 3700X Core i7-5960X
Overall Score 61811 0 % 53634 13.2 %
Future Proof 72 % 0 % 43 % 40.3 %
Benchmark Score 14597 0 % 8275 43.3 %
Single Thread Score 2663.7 0 % 1977.1 25.8 %
Encrypting Data 18805.2 MB/s 0 % 3757.5 MB/s 80 %
Compressing Data 290.3 MB/s 0 % 192 MB/s 33.9 %
String objects sorting 32278.3 thousand/s 0 % 27540.8 thousand/s 14.7 %
Prime numbers generation 102.3 millions/s 0 % 62.2 millions/s 39.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 66240 millions/s 0 % 47878.2 millions/s 27.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 38827.3 millions/s 0 % 23947.1 millions/s 38.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 7 3700X, Core i7-5960X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 7 3700X Core i7-5960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 138.3 FPS 114.0 FPS
High settings 221.3 FPS 182.3 FPS
Medium settings 276.6 FPS 227.9 FPS
Low settings 345.7 FPS 284.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 17.6 %

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 Ryzen 7 3700X Core i7-5960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 159.8 FPS 145.3 FPS
High settings 255.7 FPS 232.5 FPS
Medium settings 319.7 FPS 290.6 FPS
Low settings 399.6 FPS 363.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 9.1 %
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