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General information Core i9-9960X Ryzen 5 2600
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 8.8 % 3.4 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.4 GHz 0 % 3.9 GHz 11.4 %
Cores 16 0 % 6 62.5 %
Threads 32 0 % 12 62.5 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 65 W 60.6 %
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 2600
Overall Score 66674 0 % 54052 18.9 %
Future Proof 69 % 0 % 65 % 5.8 %
Benchmark Score 19762 0 % 8536 56.8 %
Single Thread Score 2634.9 0 % 2265.2 14 %
Encrypting Data 11469 MB/s 8.4 % 12527.5 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 507.3 MB/s 0 % 182.8 MB/s 64 %
String objects sorting 64470.1 thousand/s 0 % 21511.7 thousand/s 66.6 %
Prime numbers generation 112.7 millions/s 0 % 37.3 millions/s 66.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 117743 millions/s 0 % 44392.1 millions/s 62.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 73566 millions/s 0 % 22977 millions/s 68.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

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

Average frames per second Core i9-9960X Ryzen 5 2600
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.8 FPS 115.2 FPS
High settings 244.4 FPS 184.3 FPS
Medium settings 305.5 FPS 230.4 FPS
Low settings 381.9 FPS 288.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 24.6 %

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 2600
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 167.9 FPS 145.8 FPS
High settings 268.7 FPS 233.2 FPS
Medium settings 335.9 FPS 291.5 FPS
Low settings 419.9 FPS 364.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.2 %
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