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General information Ryzen Threadripper 3970X Xeon E5-2660 v3
Launched Q4 2019 Q3 2014
Used in Desktop Server
Factory AMD Intel
Socket sTRX4 LGA2011-v3
Series Name AMD Threadripper Intel Xeon E5
Core Family Name Castle Peak Haswell-EP
Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 2.6 GHz 29.7 %
Turbo Clock 4.5 GHz 0 % 3.3 GHz 26.7 %
Cores 32 0 % 10 68.8 %
Threads 64 0 % 20 68.8 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 280 W 0 % 105 W 62.5 %
Lithography 7 nm 68.2 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 32 × 32 kB Instruction
32 × 32 kB Data
10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 32 × 512 kB
10 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 8 × 16 MB
1 × 25 MB
ECC Supported Yes Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen Threadripper 3970X Xeon E5-2660 v3
Overall Score 79975 0 % 54011 32.5 %
Future Proof 73 % 0 % 43 % 41.1 %
Benchmark Score 40909 0 % 8510 79.2 %
Single Thread Score 2656.3 0 % 1790.9 32.6 %
Encrypting Data 75492.6 MB/s 0 % 3946 MB/s 94.8 %
Compressing Data 1113.3 MB/s 0 % 213.2 MB/s 80.8 %
String objects sorting 122713 thousand/s 0 % 29973.9 thousand/s 75.6 %
Prime numbers generation 355.1 millions/s 0 % 57 millions/s 83.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 261956 millions/s 0 % 52515.5 millions/s 80 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 153253 millions/s 0 % 26523.4 millions/s 82.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen Threadripper 3970X, Xeon E5-2660 v3.

Average frames per second Ryzen Threadripper 3970X Xeon E5-2660 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 192.3 FPS 115.2 FPS
High settings 307.7 FPS 184.3 FPS
Medium settings 384.7 FPS 230.3 FPS
Low settings 480.8 FPS 287.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 40.1 %

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 Threadripper 3970X Xeon E5-2660 v3
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 191.4 FPS 145.7 FPS
High settings 306.3 FPS 233.2 FPS
Medium settings 382.9 FPS 291.4 FPS
Low settings 478.6 FPS 364.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 23.9 %
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