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General information Ryzen 9 3950X Core i9-9980XE
Launched Q4 2019 Q4 2018
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 3.5 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 14.3 %
Turbo Clock 4.7 GHz 0 % 4.5 GHz 4.3 %
Cores 16 11.1 % 18 0 %
Threads 32 11.1 % 36 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 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 64 kB Data
18 × 32 kB Instruction
18 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 512 kB
18 × 1 MB
L3 Cache 4 × 16 MB
1 × 24.75 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 9 3950X Core i9-9980XE
Overall Score 70774 0 % 67473 4.7 %
Future Proof 73 % 0 % 68 % 6.8 %
Benchmark Score 25090 0 % 20726 17.4 %
Single Thread Score 2713.1 0 % 2539.9 6.4 %
Encrypting Data 38078 MB/s 0 % 12174.5 MB/s 68 %
Compressing Data 570.7 MB/s 0 % 543.9 MB/s 4.7 %
String objects sorting 63837 thousand/s 8.8 % 69969.7 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 181.2 millions/s 0 % 115.8 millions/s 36.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 134676 millions/s 0 % 126148 millions/s 6.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 77434.5 millions/s 1.6 % 78686.6 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 3950X, Core i9-9980XE.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 3950X Core i9-9980XE
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 164.9 FPS 155.1 FPS
High settings 263.9 FPS 248.1 FPS
Medium settings 329.8 FPS 310.2 FPS
Low settings 412.3 FPS 387.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 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 Ryzen 9 3950X Core i9-9980XE
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 175.8 FPS 169.9 FPS
High settings 281.2 FPS 271.8 FPS
Medium settings 351.5 FPS 339.8 FPS
Low settings 439.4 FPS 424.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 3.3 %
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