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General information Core i9-7940X Ryzen 5 5600
Launched Q3 2017 Q2 2022
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket FCLGA2066 AM4
Series Name Intel Core i9 AMD Ryzen 5
Core Family Name Skylake-X Vermeer
Clock 3.1 GHz 11.4 % 3.5 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 % 65 W 60.6 %
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 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 14 × 1 MB
6 × 512 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 19.25 MB
1 × 32 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7940X Ryzen 5 5600
Overall Score 64023 0 % 61109 4.6 %
Future Proof 60 % 31.8 % 88 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 16801 0 % 13945 17 %
Single Thread Score 2503.5 22.5 % 3230.9 0 %
Encrypting Data 9578.5 MB/s 38 % 15445.7 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 420.6 MB/s 0 % 244.8 MB/s 41.8 %
String objects sorting 54106.7 thousand/s 0 % 25840.2 thousand/s 52.2 %
Prime numbers generation 91.5 millions/s 31.9 % 134.3 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 95441.9 millions/s 0 % 69491.9 millions/s 27.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 59667.3 millions/s 0 % 38673.7 millions/s 35.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7940X, Ryzen 5 5600.

Average frames per second Core i9-7940X Ryzen 5 5600
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 144.9 FPS 136.3 FPS
High settings 231.8 FPS 218.0 FPS
Medium settings 289.7 FPS 272.5 FPS
Low settings 362.2 FPS 340.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 5.9 %

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 5600
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 163.5 FPS 158.4 FPS
High settings 261.7 FPS 253.4 FPS
Medium settings 327.1 FPS 316.8 FPS
Low settings 408.9 FPS 396.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 3.1 %
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