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General information Core i9-9960X Ryzen 5 2600X
Launched Q1 2019 Q2 2018
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket FCLGA2066 AM4
Series Name Intel Core i9 AMD Ryzen 5
Core Family Name Skylake-X Pinnacle Ridge
Clock 3.1 GHz 13.9 % 3.6 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.4 GHz 0 % 4.2 GHz 4.5 %
Cores 16 0 % 6 62.5 %
Threads 32 0 % 12 62.5 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 95 W 42.4 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 64 GB 50 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 12 nm 14.3 %
L1 Cache 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Data
6 × 64 kB Instruction
L2 Cache 16 × 1 MB
6 × 512 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 22 MB
1 × 15 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-9960X Ryzen 5 2600X
Overall Score 66672 0 % 54769 17.9 %
Future Proof 69 % 0 % 65 % 5.8 %
Benchmark Score 19760 0 % 8998 54.5 %
Single Thread Score 2634.9 0 % 2361.2 10.4 %
Encrypting Data 11275.6 MB/s 14.7 % 13219.4 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 498.3 MB/s 0 % 192.5 MB/s 61.4 %
String objects sorting 64860 thousand/s 0 % 22820 thousand/s 64.8 %
Prime numbers generation 113.9 millions/s 0 % 38 millions/s 66.6 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 117273 millions/s 0 % 47808.1 millions/s 59.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 72687.6 millions/s 0 % 24308 millions/s 66.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-9960X, Ryzen 5 2600X.

Average frames per second Core i9-9960X Ryzen 5 2600X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.7 FPS 117.4 FPS
High settings 244.4 FPS 187.8 FPS
Medium settings 305.5 FPS 234.7 FPS
Low settings 381.9 FPS 293.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 23.2 %

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 Core i9-9960X Ryzen 5 2600X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 168.0 FPS 147.1 FPS
High settings 268.9 FPS 235.3 FPS
Medium settings 336.1 FPS 294.1 FPS
Low settings 420.1 FPS 367.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 12.5 %
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