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General information Ryzen 9 7950X Core i5-6500
Launched Q3 2022 Q3 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM5 LGA1151
Series Name AMD Ryzen 9 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Raphael Skylake-S
Clock 4.5 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 28.9 %
Turbo Clock 5.7 GHz 0 % 3.6 GHz 36.8 %
Cores 16 0 % 4 75 %
Threads 32 0 % 4 87.5 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 170 W 0 % 65 W 61.8 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 64 GB 50 %
Lithography 5 nm 64.3 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 1 MB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 64 MB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Integrated GPU Radeon Intel HD Graphics 530
Performance Ryzen 9 7950X Core i5-6500
Overall Score 79867 0 % 43680 45.3 %
Future Proof 89 % 0 % 49 % 44.9 %
Benchmark Score 40688 0 % 3640 91.1 %
Single Thread Score 4288 0 % 2101.6 51 %
Encrypting Data 49988.1 MB/s 0 % 1674 MB/s 96.7 %
Compressing Data 818.3 MB/s 0 % 75.4 MB/s 90.8 %
String objects sorting 98231.8 thousand/s 0 % 9539.7 thousand/s 90.3 %
Prime numbers generation 343.9 millions/s 0 % 27.9 millions/s 91.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 228364 millions/s 0 % 14697 millions/s 93.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 139582 millions/s 0 % 12553.6 millions/s 91 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 7950X, Core i5-6500.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 7950X Core i5-6500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 191.9 FPS 84.4 FPS
High settings 307.1 FPS 135.1 FPS
Medium settings 383.9 FPS 168.9 FPS
Low settings 479.8 FPS 211.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 56 %

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 7950X Core i5-6500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 191.1 FPS 127.5 FPS
High settings 305.8 FPS 204.1 FPS
Medium settings 382.3 FPS 255.1 FPS
Low settings 477.8 FPS 318.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 33.3 %
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