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General information Ryzen 9 5900X 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 3.7 GHz 0 % 2.6 GHz 29.7 %
Turbo Clock 4.8 GHz 0 % 4.2 GHz 12.5 %
Cores 12 33.3 % 18 0 %
Threads 24 33.3 % 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 12 × 32 kB Instruction
12 × 32 kB Data
18 × 32 kB Instruction
18 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 12 × 512 kB
18 × 1 MB
L3 Cache 2 × 32 MB
1 × 24 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 9 5900X Core i9-7980XE
Overall Score 70949 0 % 66467 6.3 %
Future Proof 79 % 0 % 60 % 24.1 %
Benchmark Score 25339 0 % 19518 23 %
Single Thread Score 3439.8 0 % 2463.6 28.4 %
Encrypting Data 31304 MB/s 0 % 11735.3 MB/s 62.5 %
Compressing Data 486.4 MB/s 6.2 % 518.8 MB/s 0 %
String objects sorting 52521.8 thousand/s 18.8 % 64703.2 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 253 millions/s 0 % 112 millions/s 55.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 142901 millions/s 0 % 116114 millions/s 18.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 77988.3 millions/s 0 % 71352.3 millions/s 8.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 5900X, Core i9-7980XE.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 5900X Core i9-7980XE
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 165.4 FPS 152.1 FPS
High settings 264.7 FPS 243.4 FPS
Medium settings 330.9 FPS 304.3 FPS
Low settings 413.6 FPS 380.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 8 %

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 5900X Core i9-7980XE
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 176.1 FPS 168.1 FPS
High settings 281.7 FPS 269.0 FPS
Medium settings 352.1 FPS 336.2 FPS
Low settings 440.2 FPS 420.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 4.5 %
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