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General information Ryzen 9 5950X Core i9-7980XE
Launched Q4 2020 Q3 2017
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 FCLGA2066
Series Name AMD Ryzen 9 Intel Core i9
Core Family Name Vermeer Skylake-X
Clock 3.4 GHz 0 % 2.6 GHz 23.5 %
Turbo Clock 4.9 GHz 0 % 4.2 GHz 14.3 %
Cores 16 11.1 % 18 0 %
Threads 32 11.1 % 36 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 105 W 36.4 % 165 W 0 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 128 GB 0 %
Lithography 7 nm 50 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
18 × 32 kB Instruction
18 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 512 kB
18 × 1 MB
L3 Cache 2 × 32 MB
1 × 24 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 9 5950X Core i9-7980XE
Overall Score 73432 0 % 66208 9.8 %
Future Proof 79 % 0 % 60 % 24.1 %
Benchmark Score 29076 0 % 19215 33.9 %
Single Thread Score 3469 0 % 2495.9 28.1 %
Encrypting Data 39824.2 MB/s 0 % 11747 MB/s 70.5 %
Compressing Data 616.6 MB/s 0 % 515.2 MB/s 16.4 %
String objects sorting 65645.5 thousand/s 0 % 64249.9 thousand/s 2.1 %
Prime numbers generation 233.4 millions/s 0 % 111.6 millions/s 52.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 189025 millions/s 0 % 115764 millions/s 38.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 99200 millions/s 0 % 71856.8 millions/s 27.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 5950X, Core i9-7980XE.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 5950X Core i9-7980XE
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 173.6 FPS 152.0 FPS
High settings 277.7 FPS 243.2 FPS
Medium settings 347.2 FPS 304.1 FPS
Low settings 433.9 FPS 380.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 12.4 %

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 Ryzen 9 5950X Core i9-7980XE
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 182.0 FPS 168.9 FPS
High settings 291.2 FPS 270.3 FPS
Medium settings 364.0 FPS 337.8 FPS
Low settings 455.0 FPS 422.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 7.2 %
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