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General information Ryzen 9 3900X Core i9-9960X
Launched Q3 2019 Q1 2019
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 FCLGA2066
Series Name AMD Ryzen 9 Intel Core i9
Core Family Name Matisse Skylake-X
Clock 3.8 GHz 0 % 3.1 GHz 18.4 %
Turbo Clock 4.6 GHz 0 % 4.4 GHz 4.3 %
Cores 12 25 % 16 0 %
Threads 24 25 % 32 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 105 W 36.4 % 165 W 0 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 128 GB 0 %
Lithography 7 nm 50 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 12 × 32 kB Instruction
12 × 64 kB Data
16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 12 × 512 kB
16 × 1 MB
L3 Cache 4 × 16 MB
1 × 22 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 9 3900X Core i9-9960X
Overall Score 67523 0 % 66443 1.6 %
Future Proof 72 % 0 % 69 % 4.2 %
Benchmark Score 20788 0 % 19489 6.2 %
Single Thread Score 2693.5 0 % 2606.5 3.2 %
Encrypting Data 28564.3 MB/s 0 % 11332.1 MB/s 60.3 %
Compressing Data 440.7 MB/s 12.9 % 506.1 MB/s 0 %
String objects sorting 48333.2 thousand/s 25.2 % 64585.5 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 214.4 millions/s 0 % 113.8 millions/s 46.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 100626 millions/s 13.5 % 116397 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 59029.5 millions/s 19.6 % 73409.5 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 3900X, Core i9-9960X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 3900X Core i9-9960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 156.0 FPS 152.7 FPS
High settings 249.6 FPS 244.4 FPS
Medium settings 312.0 FPS 305.5 FPS
Low settings 389.9 FPS 381.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 2.1 %

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 3900X Core i9-9960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 171.3 FPS 169.3 FPS
High settings 274.0 FPS 270.9 FPS
Medium settings 342.6 FPS 338.7 FPS
Low settings 428.2 FPS 423.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 1.1 %
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