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General information Ryzen 5 3600X Core i7-5960X
Launched Q3 2019 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 Matisse Haswell-E
Clock 3.8 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 21.1 %
Turbo Clock 4.4 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 20.5 %
Cores 6 25 % 8 0 %
Threads 12 25 % 16 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 W 32.1 % 140 W 0 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 64 GB 50 %
Lithography 7 nm 68.2 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 64 kB Data
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 512 kB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 2 × 16 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 5 3600X Core i7-5960X
Overall Score 58724 0 % 53679 8.6 %
Future Proof 72 % 0 % 43 % 40.3 %
Benchmark Score 11892 0 % 8302 30.2 %
Single Thread Score 2656.7 0 % 1969.1 25.9 %
Encrypting Data 14349.9 MB/s 0 % 3699.7 MB/s 74.2 %
Compressing Data 220.1 MB/s 0 % 193 MB/s 12.3 %
String objects sorting 24650 thousand/s 11.5 % 27865.6 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 109.2 millions/s 0 % 62.4 millions/s 42.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 50207.2 millions/s 0 % 47622.7 millions/s 5.1 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 29319.8 millions/s 0 % 23525.3 millions/s 19.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 5 3600X, Core i7-5960X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 5 3600X Core i7-5960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 128.6 FPS 113.6 FPS
High settings 205.8 FPS 181.8 FPS
Medium settings 257.3 FPS 227.3 FPS
Low settings 321.6 FPS 284.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 11.7 %

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 3600X Core i7-5960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 153.8 FPS 144.9 FPS
High settings 246.1 FPS 231.8 FPS
Medium settings 307.6 FPS 289.8 FPS
Low settings 384.5 FPS 362.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 5.8 %
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