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General information Ryzen Threadripper 3970X Core i7-6850K
Launched Q4 2019 Q2 2016
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket sTRX4 FCLGA2011-3
Series Name AMD Threadripper Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Castle Peak Broadwell-E
Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 3.6 GHz 2.7 %
Turbo Clock 4.5 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 11.1 %
Cores 32 0 % 6 81.3 %
Threads 64 0 % 12 81.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 280 W 0 % 140 W 50 %
Lithography 7 nm 50 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 32 × 32 kB Instruction
32 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 32 × 512 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 8 × 16 MB
1 × 15 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen Threadripper 3970X Core i7-6850K
Overall Score 79975 0 % 52179 34.8 %
Future Proof 73 % 0 % 53 % 27.4 %
Benchmark Score 40909 0 % 7413 81.9 %
Single Thread Score 2659 0 % 2415 9.2 %
Encrypting Data 75642.8 MB/s 0 % 3167.9 MB/s 95.8 %
Compressing Data 1113.3 MB/s 0 % 166.6 MB/s 85 %
String objects sorting 123325 thousand/s 0 % 22397.7 thousand/s 81.8 %
Prime numbers generation 355.8 millions/s 0 % 50 millions/s 86 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 262220 millions/s 0 % 39339.7 millions/s 85 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 153562 millions/s 0 % 25869.2 millions/s 83.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen Threadripper 3970X, Core i7-6850K.

Average frames per second Ryzen Threadripper 3970X Core i7-6850K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 192.3 FPS 109.7 FPS
High settings 307.7 FPS 175.5 FPS
Medium settings 384.7 FPS 219.3 FPS
Low settings 480.8 FPS 274.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 43 %

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 Threadripper 3970X Core i7-6850K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 191.8 FPS 142.6 FPS
High settings 306.8 FPS 228.2 FPS
Medium settings 383.5 FPS 285.3 FPS
Low settings 479.4 FPS 356.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 25.6 %
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