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General information Ryzen 9 5900X Core i5-6600K
Launched Q4 2020 Q3 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 FCLGA1151
Series Name AMD Ryzen 9 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Vermeer Skylake-S
Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 5.4 %
Turbo Clock 4.8 GHz 0 % 3.9 GHz 18.8 %
Cores 12 0 % 4 66.7 %
Threads 24 0 % 4 83.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 105 W 0 % 91 W 13.3 %
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 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Ryzen 9 5900X Core i5-6600K
Overall Score 70947 0 % 44965 36.6 %
Future Proof 79 % 0 % 49 % 38 %
Benchmark Score 25336 0 % 4088 83.9 %
Single Thread Score 3450.2 0 % 2315.4 32.9 %
Encrypting Data 31147.5 MB/s 0 % 1822.6 MB/s 94.1 %
Compressing Data 493.8 MB/s 0 % 83.9 MB/s 83 %
String objects sorting 51676.3 thousand/s 0 % 10568.5 thousand/s 79.5 %
Prime numbers generation 255.8 millions/s 0 % 30.7 millions/s 88 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 142737 millions/s 0 % 16487.3 millions/s 88.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 78146.8 millions/s 0 % 14174.5 millions/s 81.9 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 5900X, Core i5-6600K.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 5900X Core i5-6600K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 165.5 FPS 88.3 FPS
High settings 264.8 FPS 141.3 FPS
Medium settings 331.0 FPS 176.6 FPS
Low settings 413.7 FPS 220.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 46.6 %

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 i5-6600K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 175.5 FPS 129.8 FPS
High settings 280.9 FPS 207.7 FPS
Medium settings 351.1 FPS 259.6 FPS
Low settings 438.8 FPS 324.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 26.1 %
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