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General information Ryzen 5 5600X Core i7-6950X
Launched Q4 2020 Q2 2016
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA2011-v3
Series Name AMD Ryzen 5 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Vermeer Broadwell-E
Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 18.9 %
Turbo Clock 4.6 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 13 %
Cores 6 40 % 10 0 %
Threads 12 40 % 20 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 53.6 % 140 W 0 %
Lithography 7 nm 50 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 512 kB
10 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 32 MB
1 × 25 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 5 5600X Core i7-6950X
Overall Score 61348 0 % 57930 5.6 %
Future Proof 79 % 0 % 53 % 32.9 %
Benchmark Score 14165 0 % 11262 20.5 %
Single Thread Score 3387.9 0 % 2334 31.1 %
Encrypting Data 15788.2 MB/s 0 % 5019.8 MB/s 68.2 %
Compressing Data 248.3 MB/s 8.1 % 270.2 MB/s 0 %
String objects sorting 26422.4 thousand/s 25.7 % 35548.8 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 130.3 millions/s 0 % 78.5 millions/s 39.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 71933.5 millions/s 0 % 64087.2 millions/s 10.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 39270 millions/s 4.6 % 41170.2 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 5 5600X, Core i7-6950X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 5 5600X Core i7-6950X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 136.9 FPS 126.8 FPS
High settings 219.0 FPS 202.9 FPS
Medium settings 273.8 FPS 253.6 FPS
Low settings 342.3 FPS 317.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 7.4 %

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 5 5600X Core i7-6950X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 158.6 FPS 152.6 FPS
High settings 253.8 FPS 244.1 FPS
Medium settings 317.2 FPS 305.1 FPS
Low settings 396.5 FPS 381.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 3.8 %
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