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General information Core i9-7960X Ryzen 7 5800X
Launched Q4 2017 Q4 2020
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket FCLGA2066 AM4
Series Name Intel Core i9 AMD Ryzen 7
Core Family Name Skylake-X Vermeer
Clock 2.8 GHz 26.3 % 3.8 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 10.6 % 4.7 GHz 0 %
Cores 16 0 % 8 50 %
Threads 32 0 % 16 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 105 W 36.4 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 128 GB 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 7 nm 50 %
L1 Cache 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 1 MB
8 × 512 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 22 MB
1 × 32 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7960X Ryzen 7 5800X
Overall Score 65823 0 % 65336 0.7 %
Future Proof 62 % 21.5 % 79 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 18772 0 % 18223 2.9 %
Single Thread Score 2501.5 27 % 3425.3 0 %
Encrypting Data 11234.8 MB/s 47.3 % 21318.3 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 471.3 MB/s 0 % 335.3 MB/s 28.9 %
String objects sorting 58693.2 thousand/s 0 % 35415.3 thousand/s 39.7 %
Prime numbers generation 104.1 millions/s 19.5 % 129.4 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 108339 millions/s 0 % 96878 millions/s 10.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 66497.7 millions/s 0 % 52147.3 millions/s 21.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7960X, Ryzen 7 5800X.

Average frames per second Core i9-7960X Ryzen 7 5800X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 149.7 FPS 148.2 FPS
High settings 239.5 FPS 237.1 FPS
Medium settings 299.3 FPS 296.4 FPS
Low settings 374.2 FPS 370.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 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 i9-7960X Ryzen 7 5800X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 166.3 FPS 165.5 FPS
High settings 266.1 FPS 264.7 FPS
Medium settings 332.6 FPS 330.9 FPS
Low settings 415.8 FPS 413.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.5 %
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