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General information Core i9-7940X Ryzen 5 1500X
Launched Q3 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 3.1 GHz 11.4 % 3.5 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.3 GHz 0 % 3.7 GHz 14 %
Cores 14 0 % 4 71.4 %
Threads 28 0 % 8 71.4 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 65 W 60.6 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 14 × 32 kB Instruction
14 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Data
4 × 64 kB Instruction
L2 Cache 14 × 1 MB
4 × 512 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 19.25 MB
2 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7940X Ryzen 5 1500X
Overall Score 64023 0 % 49246 23.1 %
Future Proof 60 % 0 % 59 % 1.7 %
Benchmark Score 16801 0 % 5881 65 %
Single Thread Score 2503.5 0 % 2128.9 15 %
Encrypting Data 9578.5 MB/s 0 % 8206.8 MB/s 14.3 %
Compressing Data 420.6 MB/s 0 % 115.6 MB/s 72.5 %
String objects sorting 54106.7 thousand/s 0 % 14029.9 thousand/s 74.1 %
Prime numbers generation 91.5 millions/s 0 % 33.7 millions/s 63.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 95441.9 millions/s 0 % 28796.7 millions/s 69.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 59667.3 millions/s 0 % 14924.2 millions/s 75 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7940X, Ryzen 5 1500X.

Average frames per second Core i9-7940X Ryzen 5 1500X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.9 FPS 101.0 FPS
High settings 231.8 FPS 161.6 FPS
Medium settings 289.7 FPS 202.0 FPS
Low settings 362.2 FPS 252.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 30.3 %

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 i9-7940X Ryzen 5 1500X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 163.5 FPS 137.4 FPS
High settings 261.7 FPS 219.9 FPS
Medium settings 327.1 FPS 274.9 FPS
Low settings 408.9 FPS 343.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 16 %
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