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General information Ryzen 9 3900X Core i7-6950X
Launched Q3 2019 Q2 2016
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA2011-v3
Series Name AMD Ryzen 9 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Matisse Broadwell-E
Clock 3.8 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 21.1 %
Turbo Clock 4.6 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 13 %
Cores 12 0 % 10 16.7 %
Threads 24 0 % 20 16.7 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 105 W 25 % 140 W 0 %
Lithography 7 nm 50 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 12 × 32 kB Instruction
12 × 64 kB Data
10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 12 × 512 kB
10 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 4 × 16 MB
1 × 25 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 9 3900X Core i7-6950X
Overall Score 67953 0 % 58082 14.5 %
Future Proof 72 % 0 % 53 % 26.4 %
Benchmark Score 21323 0 % 11381 46.6 %
Single Thread Score 2690.8 0 % 2336 13.2 %
Encrypting Data 28709.7 MB/s 0 % 5058.1 MB/s 82.4 %
Compressing Data 439.8 MB/s 0 % 273.2 MB/s 37.9 %
String objects sorting 48154.6 thousand/s 0 % 35574 thousand/s 26.1 %
Prime numbers generation 213.5 millions/s 0 % 79.3 millions/s 62.8 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 99231.7 millions/s 0 % 63978.4 millions/s 35.5 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 58621.6 millions/s 0 % 40712.8 millions/s 30.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 3900X, Core i7-6950X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 3900X Core i7-6950X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 155.9 FPS 126.7 FPS
High settings 249.5 FPS 202.7 FPS
Medium settings 311.8 FPS 253.4 FPS
Low settings 389.8 FPS 316.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 18.7 %

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 3900X Core i7-6950X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 170.1 FPS 152.7 FPS
High settings 272.1 FPS 244.2 FPS
Medium settings 340.1 FPS 305.3 FPS
Low settings 425.2 FPS 381.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 10.2 %
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