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General information Ryzen 7 3800X 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 3.9 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 23.1 %
Turbo Clock 4.5 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 22.2 %
Cores 8 0 % 8 0 %
Threads 16 0 % 16 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 105 W 25 % 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 3800X Core i7-5960X
Overall Score 62215 0 % 53637 13.8 %
Future Proof 72 % 0 % 43 % 40.3 %
Benchmark Score 14983 0 % 8277 44.8 %
Single Thread Score 2728.9 0 % 1980.1 27.4 %
Encrypting Data 19497.7 MB/s 0 % 3690.5 MB/s 81.1 %
Compressing Data 296.7 MB/s 0 % 192.3 MB/s 35.2 %
String objects sorting 32959.6 thousand/s 0 % 27868.6 thousand/s 15.4 %
Prime numbers generation 105.4 millions/s 0 % 61.8 millions/s 41.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 68006 millions/s 0 % 47178.4 millions/s 30.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 39570.1 millions/s 0 % 23692 millions/s 40.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 7 3800X, Core i7-5960X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 7 3800X Core i7-5960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 139.5 FPS 114.0 FPS
High settings 223.2 FPS 182.5 FPS
Medium settings 279.0 FPS 228.1 FPS
Low settings 348.8 FPS 285.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 18.3 %

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 Ryzen 7 3800X Core i7-5960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 160.4 FPS 145.2 FPS
High settings 256.7 FPS 232.4 FPS
Medium settings 320.9 FPS 290.4 FPS
Low settings 401.1 FPS 363.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 9.5 %
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