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General information Ryzen 7 2700X Core i7-5960X
Launched Q2 2018 Q3 2014
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA2011-v3
Series Name AMD Ryzen 7 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Pinnacle Ridge Haswell-E
Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 18.9 %
Turbo Clock 4.3 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 18.6 %
Cores 8 0 % 8 0 %
Threads 16 0 % 16 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 105 W 25 % 140 W 0 %
Maximum supported RAM 64 GB 0 % 64 GB 0 %
Lithography 12 nm 45.5 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Data
8 × 64 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 512 kB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 16 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 7 2700X Core i7-5960X
Overall Score 58167 0 % 53679 7.7 %
Future Proof 65 % 0 % 43 % 33.8 %
Benchmark Score 11447 0 % 8302 27.5 %
Single Thread Score 2405.1 0 % 1969.1 18.1 %
Encrypting Data 17267.9 MB/s 0 % 3699.7 MB/s 78.6 %
Compressing Data 260 MB/s 0 % 193 MB/s 25.8 %
String objects sorting 30531.8 thousand/s 0 % 27865.6 thousand/s 8.7 %
Prime numbers generation 41.3 millions/s 33.8 % 62.4 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 63998.4 millions/s 0 % 47622.7 millions/s 25.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 32614 millions/s 0 % 23525.3 millions/s 27.9 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 7 2700X, Core i7-5960X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 7 2700X Core i7-5960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 127.0 FPS 113.6 FPS
High settings 203.2 FPS 181.8 FPS
Medium settings 253.9 FPS 227.3 FPS
Low settings 317.4 FPS 284.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 10.5 %

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 2700X Core i7-5960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.8 FPS 144.9 FPS
High settings 244.5 FPS 231.8 FPS
Medium settings 305.7 FPS 289.8 FPS
Low settings 382.1 FPS 362.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 5.2 %
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