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General information Ryzen 9 3950X Core i7-6900K
Launched Q4 2019 Q2 2016
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 FCLGA2011-3
Series Name AMD Ryzen 9 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Matisse Broadwell-E
Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 8.6 %
Turbo Clock 4.7 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 14.9 %
Cores 16 0 % 8 50 %
Threads 32 0 % 16 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 105 W 25 % 140 W 0 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 128 GB 0 %
Lithography 7 nm 50 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 64 kB Data
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 512 kB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 4 × 16 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 9 3950X Core i7-6900K
Overall Score 70769 0 % 55270 21.9 %
Future Proof 73 % 0 % 53 % 27.4 %
Benchmark Score 25083 0 % 9332 62.8 %
Single Thread Score 2678 0 % 2335.3 12.8 %
Encrypting Data 37961.9 MB/s 0 % 4069.2 MB/s 89.3 %
Compressing Data 575.2 MB/s 0 % 218.3 MB/s 62 %
String objects sorting 63435.1 thousand/s 0 % 28440.5 thousand/s 55.2 %
Prime numbers generation 183.9 millions/s 0 % 63.7 millions/s 65.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 133601 millions/s 0 % 51571.6 millions/s 61.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 78060 millions/s 0 % 33493.9 millions/s 57.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 3950X, Core i7-6900K.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 3950X Core i7-6900K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 164.9 FPS 118.9 FPS
High settings 263.8 FPS 190.2 FPS
Medium settings 329.8 FPS 237.7 FPS
Low settings 412.3 FPS 297.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 27.9 %

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 3950X Core i7-6900K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 175.2 FPS 147.9 FPS
High settings 280.4 FPS 236.6 FPS
Medium settings 350.5 FPS 295.8 FPS
Low settings 438.1 FPS 369.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 15.6 %
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