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General information Core i9-7900X Core i5-3550
Launched Q2 2017 Q1 2012
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 LGA1155
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Skylake-X Ivy Bridge
Clock 3.3 GHz 0 % 3.3 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.5 GHz 0 % 3.7 GHz 17.8 %
Cores 10 0 % 4 60 %
Threads 20 0 % 4 80 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 77 W 45 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 10 × 1 MB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 13.75 MB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i9-7900X Core i5-3550
Overall Score 60975 0 % 42092 31 %
Future Proof 59 % 0 % 28 % 52.5 %
Benchmark Score 13823 0 % 3139 77.3 %
Single Thread Score 2557.7 0 % 1995 22 %
Encrypting Data 7610.4 MB/s 0 % 1213.9 MB/s 84 %
Compressing Data 314.2 MB/s 0 % 73.2 MB/s 76.7 %
String objects sorting 41012.9 thousand/s 0 % 9402.8 thousand/s 77.1 %
Prime numbers generation 75.6 millions/s 0 % 28.9 millions/s 61.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 71962.7 millions/s 0 % 15399.6 millions/s 78.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 45138.1 millions/s 0 % 11293.7 millions/s 75 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7900X, Core i5-3550.

Average frames per second Core i9-7900X Core i5-3550
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 135.3 FPS 79.4 FPS
High settings 216.4 FPS 127.0 FPS
Medium settings 270.5 FPS 158.7 FPS
Low settings 338.1 FPS 198.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 41.3 %

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 Core i9-7900X Core i5-3550
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 157.7 FPS 124.4 FPS
High settings 252.4 FPS 199.1 FPS
Medium settings 315.5 FPS 248.9 FPS
Low settings 394.4 FPS 311.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 21.1 %
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