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General information Ryzen 9 5950X Core i7-6700K
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 3.4 GHz 15 % 4 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.9 GHz 0 % 4.2 GHz 14.3 %
Cores 16 0 % 4 75 %
Threads 32 0 % 8 75 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 105 W 0 % 95 W 9.5 %
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 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 9 5950X Core i7-6700K
Overall Score 73713 0 % 49016 33.5 %
Future Proof 79 % 0 % 49 % 38 %
Benchmark Score 29524 0 % 5772 80.4 %
Single Thread Score 3495.7 0 % 2519 27.9 %
Encrypting Data 39611.8 MB/s 0 % 3042.7 MB/s 92.3 %
Compressing Data 608.5 MB/s 0 % 122.3 MB/s 79.9 %
String objects sorting 65596.6 thousand/s 0 % 15864 thousand/s 75.8 %
Prime numbers generation 232.9 millions/s 0 % 30.1 millions/s 87.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 186860 millions/s 0 % 28192.3 millions/s 84.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 100496 millions/s 0 % 17220.6 millions/s 82.9 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 5950X, Core i7-6700K.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 5950X Core i7-6700K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 173.7 FPS 100.3 FPS
High settings 277.9 FPS 160.5 FPS
Medium settings 347.3 FPS 200.6 FPS
Low settings 434.2 FPS 250.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 42.2 %

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 i7-6700K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 180.3 FPS 136.9 FPS
High settings 288.4 FPS 219.0 FPS
Medium settings 360.5 FPS 273.7 FPS
Low settings 450.7 FPS 342.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 24.1 %
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