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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 67788 0 % 54508 19.6 %
Future Proof 72 % 0 % 62 % 13.9 %
Benchmark Score 21116 0 % 8828 58.2 %
Single Thread Score 2712.4 0.7 % 2730.3 0 %
Encrypting Data 28765 MB/s 0 % 4841.1 MB/s 83.2 %
Compressing Data 441.1 MB/s 0 % 194.4 MB/s 55.9 %
String objects sorting 49013 thousand/s 0 % 25485.3 thousand/s 48 %
Prime numbers generation 213.7 millions/s 0 % 38.8 millions/s 81.8 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 100925 millions/s 0 % 45942 millions/s 54.5 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 58151.1 millions/s 0 % 28713.9 millions/s 50.6 %

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 156.0 FPS 116.6 FPS
High settings 249.6 FPS 186.5 FPS
Medium settings 312.0 FPS 233.2 FPS
Low settings 390.1 FPS 291.4 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 170.5 FPS 146.8 FPS
High settings 272.7 FPS 234.9 FPS
Medium settings 340.9 FPS 293.7 FPS
Low settings 426.1 FPS 367.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.9 %
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