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General information Core i7-8700K Ryzen 5 1500X
Launched Q4 2017 Q2 2017
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket FCLGA1151-2 AM4
Series Name Intel Core i7 AMD Ryzen 5
Core Family Name Coffee Lake Summit Ridge
Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 5.4 %
Turbo Clock 4.7 GHz 0 % 3.7 GHz 21.3 %
Cores 6 0 % 4 33.3 %
Threads 12 0 % 8 33.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 W 0 % 65 W 31.6 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Data
4 × 64 kB Instruction
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
4 × 512 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 12 MB
2 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-8700K Ryzen 5 1500X
Overall Score 54504 0 % 49247 9.6 %
Future Proof 62 % 0 % 59 % 4.8 %
Benchmark Score 8825 0 % 5882 33.3 %
Single Thread Score 2704.7 0 % 2116.2 21.8 %
Encrypting Data 4825.6 MB/s 41.1 % 8198.6 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 196.9 MB/s 0 % 113.8 MB/s 42.2 %
String objects sorting 25576.6 thousand/s 0 % 14156.4 thousand/s 44.7 %
Prime numbers generation 38.8 millions/s 0 % 34.2 millions/s 12 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 45888.1 millions/s 0 % 28854.1 millions/s 37.1 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 28793.7 millions/s 0 % 14864.9 millions/s 48.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-8700K, Ryzen 5 1500X.

Average frames per second Core i7-8700K Ryzen 5 1500X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 116.6 FPS 100.9 FPS
High settings 186.5 FPS 161.5 FPS
Medium settings 233.1 FPS 201.9 FPS
Low settings 291.4 FPS 252.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.4 %

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 i7-8700K Ryzen 5 1500X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 146.5 FPS 137.3 FPS
High settings 234.4 FPS 219.7 FPS
Medium settings 293.1 FPS 274.6 FPS
Low settings 366.3 FPS 343.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 6.3 %
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