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General information Core i9-7980XE Ryzen 5 3500X
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 3500X
Overall Score 66461 0 % 54026 18.7 %
Future Proof 60 % 17.8 % 73 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 19511 0 % 8519 56.3 %
Single Thread Score 2487.4 0.7 % 2505 0 %
Encrypting Data 11727.3 MB/s 0 % 7300.3 MB/s 37.7 %
Compressing Data 517.1 MB/s 0 % 139.2 MB/s 73.1 %
String objects sorting 64985.9 thousand/s 0 % 16309.7 thousand/s 74.9 %
Prime numbers generation 111.8 millions/s 5.9 % 118.8 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 116892 millions/s 0 % 32886.6 millions/s 71.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 71325.5 millions/s 0 % 23303 millions/s 67.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

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

Average frames per second Core i9-7980XE Ryzen 5 3500X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.1 FPS 115.2 FPS
High settings 243.4 FPS 184.3 FPS
Medium settings 304.2 FPS 230.4 FPS
Low settings 380.3 FPS 288.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 24.3 %

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 i9-7980XE Ryzen 5 3500X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 167.6 FPS 145.8 FPS
High settings 268.2 FPS 233.2 FPS
Medium settings 335.3 FPS 291.5 FPS
Low settings 419.1 FPS 364.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.1 %
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