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General information Ryzen 9 5900X Core i7-6700
Launched Q4 2020 Q3 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA1151
Series Name AMD Ryzen 9 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Vermeer Skylake-S
Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 3.4 GHz 8.1 %
Turbo Clock 4.8 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 16.7 %
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 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 12 × 512 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 2 × 32 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 9 5900X Core i7-6700
Overall Score 70947 0 % 47827 32.6 %
Future Proof 79 % 0 % 49 % 38 %
Benchmark Score 25336 0 % 5232 79.3 %
Single Thread Score 3471 0 % 2271.4 34.6 %
Encrypting Data 31491.8 MB/s 0 % 2782.8 MB/s 91.2 %
Compressing Data 492.8 MB/s 0 % 112.3 MB/s 77.2 %
String objects sorting 52512.8 thousand/s 0 % 14662.9 thousand/s 72.1 %
Prime numbers generation 255.3 millions/s 0 % 27.1 millions/s 89.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 142744 millions/s 0 % 25717.7 millions/s 82 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 78147.8 millions/s 0 % 15894.1 millions/s 79.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 5900X, Core i7-6700.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 5900X Core i7-6700
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 165.4 FPS 96.7 FPS
High settings 264.7 FPS 154.8 FPS
Medium settings 330.9 FPS 193.5 FPS
Low settings 413.6 FPS 241.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 41.5 %

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 5900X Core i7-6700
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 175.6 FPS 134.8 FPS
High settings 280.9 FPS 215.8 FPS
Medium settings 351.2 FPS 269.7 FPS
Low settings 438.9 FPS 337.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 23.2 %
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