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General information Ryzen 7 2700X Core i7-6950X
Launched Q2 2018 Q2 2016
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA2011-v3
Series Name AMD Ryzen 7 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Pinnacle Ridge Broadwell-E
Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 18.9 %
Turbo Clock 4.3 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 7 %
Cores 8 20 % 10 0 %
Threads 16 20 % 20 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 105 W 25 % 140 W 0 %
Lithography 12 nm 14.3 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Data
8 × 64 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 512 kB
10 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 16 MB
1 × 25 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 7 2700X Core i7-6950X
Overall Score 58030 0 % 57949 0.1 %
Future Proof 65 % 0 % 53 % 18.5 %
Benchmark Score 11340 0 % 11276 0.6 %
Single Thread Score 2417.2 0 % 2321.9 3.9 %
Encrypting Data 17110.3 MB/s 0 % 4994.6 MB/s 70.8 %
Compressing Data 261.8 MB/s 4.5 % 274.1 MB/s 0 %
String objects sorting 30835.2 thousand/s 12.8 % 35349 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 40.8 millions/s 48.5 % 79.2 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 63874.1 millions/s 0 % 63276.7 millions/s 0.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 32452.9 millions/s 21.1 % 41132 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 7 2700X, Core i7-6950X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 7 2700X Core i7-6950X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 127.0 FPS 126.8 FPS
High settings 203.2 FPS 202.8 FPS
Medium settings 254.0 FPS 253.5 FPS
Low settings 317.5 FPS 316.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.2 %

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 7 2700X Core i7-6950X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.7 FPS 152.6 FPS
High settings 244.4 FPS 244.1 FPS
Medium settings 305.4 FPS 305.1 FPS
Low settings 381.8 FPS 381.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.1 %
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