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General information Ryzen 5 5600X Core i7-5960X
Launched Q4 2020 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 Vermeer Haswell-E
Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 18.9 %
Turbo Clock 4.6 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 23.9 %
Cores 6 25 % 8 0 %
Threads 12 25 % 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 × 32 kB Data
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 512 kB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 32 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 5 5600X Core i7-5960X
Overall Score 61348 0 % 53636 12.6 %
Future Proof 79 % 0 % 43 % 45.6 %
Benchmark Score 14165 0 % 8276 41.6 %
Single Thread Score 3387.9 0 % 1980.1 41.6 %
Encrypting Data 15788.2 MB/s 0 % 3750.1 MB/s 76.2 %
Compressing Data 248.3 MB/s 0 % 194.6 MB/s 21.6 %
String objects sorting 26422.4 thousand/s 4.7 % 27729.6 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 130.3 millions/s 0 % 62.1 millions/s 52.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 71933.5 millions/s 0 % 47702.7 millions/s 33.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 39270 millions/s 0 % 24049.5 millions/s 38.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 5 5600X, Core i7-5960X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 5 5600X Core i7-5960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 136.9 FPS 114.0 FPS
High settings 219.0 FPS 182.5 FPS
Medium settings 273.8 FPS 228.1 FPS
Low settings 342.3 FPS 285.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 16.7 %

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 5600X Core i7-5960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 158.6 FPS 145.0 FPS
High settings 253.8 FPS 232.0 FPS
Medium settings 317.2 FPS 290.0 FPS
Low settings 396.5 FPS 362.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 8.6 %
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