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General information Ryzen 9 3900X Core i7-8700K
Launched Q3 2019 Q4 2017
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name AMD Ryzen 9 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Matisse Coffee Lake
Clock 3.8 GHz 0 % 3.7 GHz 2.6 %
Turbo Clock 4.6 GHz 2.1 % 4.7 GHz 0 %
Cores 12 0 % 6 50 %
Threads 24 0 % 12 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 105 W 0 % 95 W 9.5 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 128 GB 0 %
Lithography 7 nm 50 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 12 × 32 kB Instruction
12 × 64 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 12 × 512 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 4 × 16 MB
1 × 12 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 9 3900X Core i7-8700K
Overall Score 67953 0 % 54642 19.6 %
Future Proof 72 % 0 % 62 % 13.9 %
Benchmark Score 21323 0 % 8915 58.2 %
Single Thread Score 2690.8 1.1 % 2719.3 0 %
Encrypting Data 28709.7 MB/s 0 % 4793.9 MB/s 83.3 %
Compressing Data 439.8 MB/s 0 % 196.4 MB/s 55.3 %
String objects sorting 48154.6 thousand/s 0 % 25700.9 thousand/s 46.6 %
Prime numbers generation 213.5 millions/s 0 % 39 millions/s 81.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 99231.7 millions/s 0 % 45531.5 millions/s 54.1 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 58621.6 millions/s 0 % 28602.4 millions/s 51.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 3900X, Core i7-8700K.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 3900X Core i7-8700K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 155.9 FPS 116.5 FPS
High settings 249.5 FPS 186.4 FPS
Medium settings 311.8 FPS 233.1 FPS
Low settings 389.8 FPS 291.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 25.3 %

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 3900X Core i7-8700K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 170.1 FPS 146.6 FPS
High settings 272.1 FPS 234.5 FPS
Medium settings 340.1 FPS 293.2 FPS
Low settings 425.2 FPS 366.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.8 %
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