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General information Core i9-7960X Ryzen 5 5600
Launched Q4 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 2.8 GHz 20 % 3.5 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 4.5 % 4.4 GHz 0 %
Cores 16 0 % 6 62.5 %
Threads 32 0 % 12 62.5 %
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 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 1 MB
6 × 512 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 22 MB
1 × 32 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7960X Ryzen 5 5600
Overall Score 65663 0 % 61109 6.9 %
Future Proof 62 % 29.5 % 88 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 18590 0 % 13945 25 %
Single Thread Score 2516.5 22.1 % 3230.9 0 %
Encrypting Data 11279.5 MB/s 27 % 15445.7 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 471.7 MB/s 0 % 244.8 MB/s 48.1 %
String objects sorting 59520.7 thousand/s 0 % 25840.2 thousand/s 56.6 %
Prime numbers generation 104.9 millions/s 21.9 % 134.3 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 108339 millions/s 0 % 69491.9 millions/s 35.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 66631.8 millions/s 0 % 38673.7 millions/s 42 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7960X, Ryzen 5 5600.

Average frames per second Core i9-7960X Ryzen 5 5600
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 149.8 FPS 136.3 FPS
High settings 239.7 FPS 218.0 FPS
Medium settings 299.6 FPS 272.5 FPS
Low settings 374.5 FPS 340.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 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 i9-7960X Ryzen 5 5600
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 166.4 FPS 158.4 FPS
High settings 266.3 FPS 253.4 FPS
Medium settings 332.9 FPS 316.8 FPS
Low settings 416.1 FPS 396.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 4.8 %
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