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General information Core i9-7980XE Ryzen 5 3500
Launched Q3 2017 Q4 2019
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket FCLGA2066 AM4
Series Name Intel Core i9 AMD Ryzen 5
Core Family Name Skylake-X Matisse
Clock 2.6 GHz 27.8 % 3.6 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 0 % 4.1 GHz 2.4 %
Cores 18 0 % 6 66.7 %
Threads 36 0 % 6 83.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 65 W 60.6 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 128 GB 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 7 nm 50 %
L1 Cache 18 × 32 kB Instruction
18 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 64 kB Data
L2 Cache 18 × 1 MB
6 × 512 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 24 MB
2 × 16 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i9-7980XE Ryzen 5 3500
Overall Score 66461 0 % 53629 19.3 %
Future Proof 60 % 17.8 % 73 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 19511 0 % 8272 57.6 %
Single Thread Score 2502.3 0.7 % 2519.5 0 %
Encrypting Data 11844.7 MB/s 0 % 7290 MB/s 38.5 %
Compressing Data 516.5 MB/s 0 % 140.2 MB/s 72.9 %
String objects sorting 64144.5 thousand/s 0 % 16155.1 thousand/s 74.8 %
Prime numbers generation 111.6 millions/s 0 % 88.1 millions/s 21 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 116542 millions/s 0 % 32646.8 millions/s 72 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 71685.8 millions/s 0 % 23060.1 millions/s 67.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7980XE, Ryzen 5 3500.

Average frames per second Core i9-7980XE Ryzen 5 3500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.1 FPS 114.0 FPS
High settings 243.4 FPS 182.4 FPS
Medium settings 304.2 FPS 228.0 FPS
Low settings 380.3 FPS 285.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 25 %

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 i9-7980XE Ryzen 5 3500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 167.6 FPS 145.0 FPS
High settings 268.1 FPS 232.0 FPS
Medium settings 335.1 FPS 290.0 FPS
Low settings 418.9 FPS 362.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.5 %
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