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General information Core i9-7960X Ryzen 5 1600X
Launched Q4 2017 Q2 2017
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket FCLGA2066 AM4
Series Name Intel Core i9 AMD Ryzen 5
Core Family Name Skylake-X Summit Ridge
Clock 2.8 GHz 22.2 % 3.6 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 4.8 %
Cores 16 0 % 6 62.5 %
Threads 32 0 % 12 62.5 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 95 W 42.4 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Data
6 × 64 kB Instruction
L2 Cache 16 × 1 MB
6 × 512 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 22 MB
2 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7960X Ryzen 5 1600X
Overall Score 65663 0 % 53915 17.9 %
Future Proof 62 % 0 % 59 % 4.8 %
Benchmark Score 18590 0 % 8449 54.6 %
Single Thread Score 2504 0 % 2186.8 12.7 %
Encrypting Data 11246 MB/s 11 % 12642.8 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 465.6 MB/s 0 % 178.2 MB/s 61.7 %
String objects sorting 59225.2 thousand/s 0 % 21832.1 thousand/s 63.1 %
Prime numbers generation 103.1 millions/s 0 % 35.1 millions/s 66 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 107478 millions/s 0 % 44818 millions/s 58.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 67168.1 millions/s 0 % 22992 millions/s 65.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7960X, Ryzen 5 1600X.

Average frames per second Core i9-7960X Ryzen 5 1600X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 149.8 FPS 114.9 FPS
High settings 239.7 FPS 183.8 FPS
Medium settings 299.6 FPS 229.7 FPS
Low settings 374.5 FPS 287.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 23.3 %

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 i9-7960X Ryzen 5 1600X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 166.3 FPS 145.6 FPS
High settings 266.1 FPS 232.9 FPS
Medium settings 332.6 FPS 291.2 FPS
Low settings 415.7 FPS 363.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 12.5 %
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