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General information Ryzen 9 5950X Core i5-6500
Launched Q4 2020 Q3 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA1151
Series Name AMD Ryzen 9 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Vermeer Skylake-S
Clock 3.4 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 5.9 %
Turbo Clock 4.9 GHz 0 % 3.6 GHz 26.5 %
Cores 16 0 % 4 75 %
Threads 32 0 % 4 87.5 %
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 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 512 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 2 × 32 MB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Ryzen 9 5950X Core i5-6500
Overall Score 73718 0 % 43680 40.7 %
Future Proof 79 % 0 % 49 % 38 %
Benchmark Score 29532 0 % 3640 87.7 %
Single Thread Score 3464.5 0 % 2101.6 39.3 %
Encrypting Data 39579.8 MB/s 0 % 1674 MB/s 95.8 %
Compressing Data 614.7 MB/s 0 % 75.4 MB/s 87.7 %
String objects sorting 66220 thousand/s 0 % 9539.7 thousand/s 85.6 %
Prime numbers generation 232.7 millions/s 0 % 27.9 millions/s 88 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 190118 millions/s 0 % 14697 millions/s 92.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 99494.6 millions/s 0 % 12553.6 millions/s 87.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 5950X, Core i5-6500.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 5950X Core i5-6500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 173.7 FPS 84.4 FPS
High settings 277.9 FPS 135.1 FPS
Medium settings 347.4 FPS 168.9 FPS
Low settings 434.2 FPS 211.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 51.4 %

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 5950X Core i5-6500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 180.3 FPS 127.5 FPS
High settings 288.5 FPS 204.1 FPS
Medium settings 360.7 FPS 255.1 FPS
Low settings 450.9 FPS 318.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 29.3 %
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