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General information Ryzen 5 3500X Core i7-5960X
Launched Q4 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 3.6 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 16.7 %
Turbo Clock 4.1 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 14.6 %
Cores 6 25 % 8 0 %
Threads 6 62.5 % 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 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 No Yes
Performance Ryzen 5 3500X Core i7-5960X
Overall Score 54025 0 % 53636 0.7 %
Future Proof 73 % 0 % 43 % 41.1 %
Benchmark Score 8519 0 % 8276 2.9 %
Single Thread Score 2525 0 % 1986 21.3 %
Encrypting Data 7220.1 MB/s 0 % 3738.9 MB/s 48.2 %
Compressing Data 139.6 MB/s 28.3 % 194.8 MB/s 0 %
String objects sorting 16160.8 thousand/s 42 % 27868.6 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 118 millions/s 0 % 61.8 millions/s 47.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 32326.5 millions/s 31.8 % 47369.1 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23208.4 millions/s 2.2 % 23739.7 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 5 3500X, Core i7-5960X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 5 3500X Core i7-5960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 115.1 FPS 114.0 FPS
High settings 184.2 FPS 182.5 FPS
Medium settings 230.3 FPS 228.1 FPS
Low settings 287.8 FPS 285.1 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 3500X Core i7-5960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.7 FPS 145.0 FPS
High settings 233.2 FPS 232.0 FPS
Medium settings 291.5 FPS 290.0 FPS
Low settings 364.3 FPS 362.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.5 %
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