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General information Ryzen 5 3600X Core i7-8700
Launched Q3 2019 Q4 2017
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name AMD Ryzen 5 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Matisse Coffee Lake
Clock 3.8 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 15.8 %
Turbo Clock 4.4 GHz 4.3 % 4.6 GHz 0 %
Cores 6 0 % 6 0 %
Threads 12 0 % 12 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 W 0 % 65 W 31.6 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 128 GB 0 %
Lithography 7 nm 50 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 64 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 512 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 2 × 16 MB
1 × 12 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 5 3600X Core i7-8700
Overall Score 58582 0 % 53704 8.3 %
Future Proof 72 % 0 % 62 % 13.9 %
Benchmark Score 11778 0 % 8318 29.4 %
Single Thread Score 2662 0 % 2658.2 0.1 %
Encrypting Data 14264.1 MB/s 0 % 4526.1 MB/s 68.3 %
Compressing Data 221 MB/s 0 % 185.9 MB/s 15.9 %
String objects sorting 24472.5 thousand/s 0 % 24346.8 thousand/s 0.5 %
Prime numbers generation 109.5 millions/s 0 % 34.8 millions/s 68.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 50455.9 millions/s 0 % 44777.3 millions/s 11.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 29431.4 millions/s 0 % 27687.7 millions/s 5.9 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 5 3600X, Core i7-8700.

Average frames per second Ryzen 5 3600X Core i7-8700
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 128.7 FPS 114.2 FPS
High settings 205.9 FPS 182.7 FPS
Medium settings 257.3 FPS 228.3 FPS
Low settings 321.7 FPS 285.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 11.3 %

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 5 3600X Core i7-8700
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 154.1 FPS 145.4 FPS
High settings 246.5 FPS 232.6 FPS
Medium settings 308.2 FPS 290.8 FPS
Low settings 385.2 FPS 363.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 5.6 %
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