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General information Ryzen 5 5600X Core i7-6900K
Launched Q4 2020 Q2 2016
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 FCLGA2011-3
Series Name AMD Ryzen 5 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Vermeer Broadwell-E
Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 13.5 %
Turbo Clock 4.6 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 13 %
Cores 6 25 % 8 0 %
Threads 12 25 % 16 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 53.6 % 140 W 0 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 128 GB 0 %
Lithography 7 nm 50 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 512 kB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 32 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 5 5600X Core i7-6900K
Overall Score 61348 0 % 55285 9.9 %
Future Proof 79 % 0 % 53 % 32.9 %
Benchmark Score 14165 0 % 9342 34 %
Single Thread Score 3327.4 0 % 2314.6 30.4 %
Encrypting Data 15773.5 MB/s 0 % 4068.2 MB/s 74.2 %
Compressing Data 247.3 MB/s 0 % 220 MB/s 11.1 %
String objects sorting 26240.6 thousand/s 7.6 % 28388.2 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 128.7 millions/s 0 % 64.4 millions/s 50 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 72731.2 millions/s 0 % 51627.9 millions/s 29 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 39586 millions/s 0 % 33458 millions/s 15.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 5 5600X, Core i7-6900K.

Average frames per second Ryzen 5 5600X Core i7-6900K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 136.9 FPS 118.9 FPS
High settings 219.0 FPS 190.3 FPS
Medium settings 273.8 FPS 237.8 FPS
Low settings 342.3 FPS 297.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.1 %

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 5 5600X Core i7-6900K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 158.7 FPS 148.0 FPS
High settings 253.9 FPS 236.8 FPS
Medium settings 317.4 FPS 296.0 FPS
Low settings 396.7 FPS 370.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 6.7 %
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