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General information Ryzen 7 3800X Core i5-8500
Launched Q3 2019 Q1 2018
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name AMD Ryzen 7 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Matisse Coffee Lake
Clock 3.9 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 23.1 %
Turbo Clock 4.5 GHz 0 % 4.1 GHz 8.9 %
Cores 8 0 % 6 25 %
Threads 16 0 % 6 62.5 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 105 W 0 % 65 W 38.1 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 128 GB 0 %
Lithography 7 nm 50 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 64 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 512 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 2 × 16 MB
1 × 9 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Ryzen 7 3800X Core i5-8500
Overall Score 62215 0 % 49875 19.8 %
Future Proof 72 % 0 % 63 % 12.5 %
Benchmark Score 14983 0 % 6188 58.7 %
Single Thread Score 2701.7 0 % 2469.8 8.6 %
Encrypting Data 19439.4 MB/s 0 % 3008 MB/s 84.5 %
Compressing Data 297 MB/s 0 % 134.2 MB/s 54.8 %
String objects sorting 32827.3 thousand/s 0 % 16401.1 thousand/s 50 %
Prime numbers generation 106 millions/s 0 % 36.1 millions/s 65.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 67734 millions/s 0 % 26490.4 millions/s 60.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 39729.5 millions/s 0 % 22616.1 millions/s 43.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 7 3800X, Core i5-8500.

Average frames per second Ryzen 7 3800X Core i5-8500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 139.5 FPS 102.8 FPS
High settings 223.2 FPS 164.5 FPS
Medium settings 279.0 FPS 205.6 FPS
Low settings 348.8 FPS 257.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 26.3 %

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 7 3800X Core i5-8500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 160.1 FPS 138.4 FPS
High settings 256.2 FPS 221.5 FPS
Medium settings 320.3 FPS 276.9 FPS
Low settings 400.3 FPS 346.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.6 %
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