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General information Core i9-7960X Ryzen 5 1500X
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 20 % 3.5 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 0 % 3.7 GHz 11.9 %
Cores 16 0 % 4 75 %
Threads 32 0 % 8 75 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 65 W 60.6 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Data
4 × 64 kB Instruction
L2 Cache 16 × 1 MB
4 × 512 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 22 MB
2 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7960X Ryzen 5 1500X
Overall Score 65663 0 % 49246 25 %
Future Proof 62 % 0 % 59 % 4.8 %
Benchmark Score 18590 0 % 5881 68.4 %
Single Thread Score 2504 0 % 2128.9 15 %
Encrypting Data 11246 MB/s 0 % 8264.3 MB/s 26.5 %
Compressing Data 465.6 MB/s 0 % 113.4 MB/s 75.6 %
String objects sorting 59225.2 thousand/s 0 % 14170.5 thousand/s 76.1 %
Prime numbers generation 103.1 millions/s 0 % 33.8 millions/s 67.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 107478 millions/s 0 % 28825.4 millions/s 73.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 67168.1 millions/s 0 % 14983.6 millions/s 77.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7960X, Ryzen 5 1500X.

Average frames per second Core i9-7960X Ryzen 5 1500X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 149.8 FPS 101.0 FPS
High settings 239.7 FPS 161.5 FPS
Medium settings 299.6 FPS 201.9 FPS
Low settings 374.5 FPS 252.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 32.6 %

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 1500X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 166.3 FPS 137.4 FPS
High settings 266.1 FPS 219.8 FPS
Medium settings 332.6 FPS 274.7 FPS
Low settings 415.7 FPS 343.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 17.4 %
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