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General information Ryzen 9 3950X Core i5-8500
Launched Q4 2019 Q1 2018
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name AMD Ryzen 9 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Matisse Coffee Lake
Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 14.3 %
Turbo Clock 4.7 GHz 0 % 4.1 GHz 12.8 %
Cores 16 0 % 6 62.5 %
Threads 32 0 % 6 81.3 %
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 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 64 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 512 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 4 × 16 MB
1 × 9 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Ryzen 9 3950X Core i5-8500
Overall Score 70772 0 % 49875 29.5 %
Future Proof 73 % 0 % 63 % 13.7 %
Benchmark Score 25086 0 % 6188 75.3 %
Single Thread Score 2691.5 0 % 2455.1 8.8 %
Encrypting Data 37850.8 MB/s 0 % 2992.9 MB/s 92.1 %
Compressing Data 579.8 MB/s 0 % 131.7 MB/s 77.3 %
String objects sorting 64155.2 thousand/s 0 % 16567.8 thousand/s 74.2 %
Prime numbers generation 184.3 millions/s 0 % 36.2 millions/s 80.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 132540 millions/s 0 % 26867.7 millions/s 79.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 78217.1 millions/s 0 % 22501.5 millions/s 71.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 3950X, Core i5-8500.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 3950X Core i5-8500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 165.0 FPS 102.8 FPS
High settings 264.0 FPS 164.5 FPS
Medium settings 330.0 FPS 205.6 FPS
Low settings 412.5 FPS 257.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 37.7 %

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 3950X Core i5-8500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 175.5 FPS 138.5 FPS
High settings 280.7 FPS 221.6 FPS
Medium settings 350.9 FPS 277.0 FPS
Low settings 438.7 FPS 346.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 21.1 %
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