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General information Ryzen 9 5900X Core i7-6950X
Launched Q4 2020 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 Vermeer Broadwell-E
Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 18.9 %
Turbo Clock 4.8 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 16.7 %
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 × 32 kB Data
10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 12 × 512 kB
10 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 2 × 32 MB
1 × 25 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 9 5900X Core i7-6950X
Overall Score 70673 0 % 57719 18.3 %
Future Proof 79 % 0 % 53 % 32.9 %
Benchmark Score 24947 0 % 11099 55.5 %
Single Thread Score 3464.1 0 % 2347.7 32.2 %
Encrypting Data 31493.8 MB/s 0 % 5024.8 MB/s 84 %
Compressing Data 487.9 MB/s 0 % 273.8 MB/s 43.9 %
String objects sorting 51643 thousand/s 0 % 35991 thousand/s 30.3 %
Prime numbers generation 256.5 millions/s 0 % 78.7 millions/s 69.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 142056 millions/s 0 % 63723.2 millions/s 55.1 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 77680.2 millions/s 0 % 41132 millions/s 47 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 5900X, Core i7-6950X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 5900X Core i7-6950X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 165.4 FPS 126.8 FPS
High settings 264.6 FPS 202.8 FPS
Medium settings 330.7 FPS 253.5 FPS
Low settings 413.4 FPS 316.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 23.4 %

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 9 5900X Core i7-6950X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 177.0 FPS 153.5 FPS
High settings 283.2 FPS 245.6 FPS
Medium settings 353.9 FPS 306.9 FPS
Low settings 442.4 FPS 383.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.3 %
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