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General information Ryzen 9 3900 Core i5-6500
Launched Q4 2019 Q3 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA1151
Series Name AMD Ryzen 9 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Matisse Skylake-S
Clock 3.1 GHz 3.1 % 3.2 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.3 GHz 0 % 3.6 GHz 16.3 %
Cores 12 0 % 4 66.7 %
Threads 24 0 % 4 83.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 0 % 65 W 0 %
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 4 × 16 MB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Ryzen 9 3900 Core i5-6500
Overall Score 66823 0 % 43679 34.6 %
Future Proof 73 % 0 % 49 % 32.9 %
Benchmark Score 19939 0 % 3640 81.7 %
Single Thread Score 2593.8 0 % 2107.9 18.7 %
Encrypting Data 26699.8 MB/s 0 % 1682.4 MB/s 93.7 %
Compressing Data 408.8 MB/s 0 % 75 MB/s 81.7 %
String objects sorting 44920.3 thousand/s 0 % 9519.8 thousand/s 78.8 %
Prime numbers generation 205.6 millions/s 0 % 28.2 millions/s 86.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 97944.8 millions/s 0 % 14784.2 millions/s 84.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 57092 millions/s 0 % 12342.9 millions/s 78.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 3900, Core i5-6500.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 3900 Core i5-6500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 153.2 FPS 84.4 FPS
High settings 245.1 FPS 135.1 FPS
Medium settings 306.4 FPS 168.8 FPS
Low settings 383.0 FPS 211.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 44.9 %

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 9 3900 Core i5-6500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 168.3 FPS 127.5 FPS
High settings 269.2 FPS 204.0 FPS
Medium settings 336.5 FPS 255.0 FPS
Low settings 420.6 FPS 318.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 24.2 %
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