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General information Ryzen 9 3900X Core i7-6700
Launched Q3 2019 Q3 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA1151
Series Name AMD Ryzen 9 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Matisse Skylake-S
Clock 3.8 GHz 0 % 3.4 GHz 10.5 %
Turbo Clock 4.6 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 13 %
Cores 12 0 % 4 66.7 %
Threads 24 0 % 8 66.7 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 105 W 0 % 65 W 38.1 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 64 GB 50 %
Lithography 7 nm 50 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 12 × 32 kB Instruction
12 × 64 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 12 × 512 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 4 × 16 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 9 3900X Core i7-6700
Overall Score 67786 0 % 47826 29.4 %
Future Proof 72 % 0 % 49 % 31.9 %
Benchmark Score 21113 0 % 5232 75.2 %
Single Thread Score 2715.1 0 % 2303.5 15.2 %
Encrypting Data 28764 MB/s 0 % 2755.2 MB/s 90.4 %
Compressing Data 438 MB/s 0 % 112.4 MB/s 74.3 %
String objects sorting 48521.8 thousand/s 0 % 14661.9 thousand/s 69.8 %
Prime numbers generation 214.8 millions/s 0 % 27.2 millions/s 87.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 100922 millions/s 0 % 25562.5 millions/s 74.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 59088 millions/s 0 % 15940.8 millions/s 73 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 3900X, Core i7-6700.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 3900X Core i7-6700
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 156.1 FPS 96.7 FPS
High settings 249.7 FPS 154.8 FPS
Medium settings 312.2 FPS 193.5 FPS
Low settings 390.2 FPS 241.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 38 %

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 9 3900X Core i7-6700
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 170.2 FPS 134.9 FPS
High settings 272.4 FPS 215.9 FPS
Medium settings 340.4 FPS 269.8 FPS
Low settings 425.6 FPS 337.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 20.7 %
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