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General information Ryzen 7 3800X Core i7-6950X
Launched Q3 2019 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 Matisse Broadwell-E
Clock 3.9 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 23.1 %
Turbo Clock 4.5 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 11.1 %
Cores 8 20 % 10 0 %
Threads 16 20 % 20 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 105 W 25 % 140 W 0 %
Lithography 7 nm 50 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 64 kB Data
10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 512 kB
10 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 2 × 16 MB
1 × 25 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 7 3800X Core i7-6950X
Overall Score 62214 0 % 57931 6.9 %
Future Proof 72 % 0 % 53 % 26.4 %
Benchmark Score 14981 0 % 11262 24.8 %
Single Thread Score 2726.2 0 % 2326 14.7 %
Encrypting Data 19342.3 MB/s 0 % 5009.8 MB/s 74.1 %
Compressing Data 299.1 MB/s 0 % 272.9 MB/s 8.8 %
String objects sorting 33257.5 thousand/s 6.4 % 35520.1 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 105.6 millions/s 0 % 79.2 millions/s 24.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 68074 millions/s 0 % 63143.5 millions/s 7.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 39689.6 millions/s 3.6 % 41172.2 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 7 3800X, Core i7-6950X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 7 3800X Core i7-6950X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 139.5 FPS 126.8 FPS
High settings 223.2 FPS 202.9 FPS
Medium settings 279.0 FPS 253.6 FPS
Low settings 348.8 FPS 317.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 9.1 %

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 3800X Core i7-6950X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 160.4 FPS 152.8 FPS
High settings 256.6 FPS 244.5 FPS
Medium settings 320.7 FPS 305.6 FPS
Low settings 400.9 FPS 382.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 4.7 %
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