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General information Core i9-7940X Ryzen 5 3600X
Launched Q3 2017 Q3 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 3.1 GHz 18.4 % 3.8 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.3 GHz 2.3 % 4.4 GHz 0 %
Cores 14 0 % 6 57.1 %
Threads 28 0 % 12 57.1 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 95 W 42.4 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 128 GB 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 7 nm 50 %
L1 Cache 14 × 32 kB Instruction
14 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 64 kB Data
L2 Cache 14 × 1 MB
6 × 512 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 19.25 MB
2 × 16 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7940X Ryzen 5 3600X
Overall Score 64023 0 % 58580 8.5 %
Future Proof 60 % 16.7 % 72 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 16801 0 % 11776 29.9 %
Single Thread Score 2486 6.9 % 2668.9 0 %
Encrypting Data 9568.8 MB/s 33.4 % 14376.5 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 418.1 MB/s 0 % 217.2 MB/s 48 %
String objects sorting 53353.7 thousand/s 0 % 24469.5 thousand/s 54.1 %
Prime numbers generation 90.5 millions/s 17.2 % 109.2 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 95924 millions/s 0 % 50400.8 millions/s 47.5 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 59727.6 millions/s 0 % 29223.6 millions/s 51.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7940X, Ryzen 5 3600X.

Average frames per second Core i9-7940X Ryzen 5 3600X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.9 FPS 128.7 FPS
High settings 231.8 FPS 206.0 FPS
Medium settings 289.7 FPS 257.5 FPS
Low settings 362.2 FPS 321.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 11.1 %

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 i9-7940X Ryzen 5 3600X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 163.4 FPS 153.8 FPS
High settings 261.4 FPS 246.0 FPS
Medium settings 326.8 FPS 307.5 FPS
Low settings 408.4 FPS 384.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 5.9 %
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