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General information Ryzen 9 3900 Core i7-5960X
Launched Q4 2019 Q3 2014
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA2011-v3
Series Name AMD Ryzen 9 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Matisse Haswell-E
Clock 3.1 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 3.2 %
Turbo Clock 4.3 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 18.6 %
Cores 12 0 % 8 33.3 %
Threads 24 0 % 16 33.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 53.6 % 140 W 0 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 64 GB 50 %
Lithography 7 nm 68.2 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 12 × 32 kB Instruction
12 × 32 kB Data
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 12 × 512 kB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 4 × 16 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 9 3900 Core i7-5960X
Overall Score 66826 0 % 53581 19.8 %
Future Proof 73 % 0 % 43 % 41.1 %
Benchmark Score 19943 0 % 8242 58.7 %
Single Thread Score 2603.3 0 % 1990.9 23.5 %
Encrypting Data 26991.3 MB/s 0 % 3715.5 MB/s 86.2 %
Compressing Data 409.2 MB/s 0 % 192.3 MB/s 53 %
String objects sorting 45291.2 thousand/s 0 % 27789.7 thousand/s 38.6 %
Prime numbers generation 204.8 millions/s 0 % 61.8 millions/s 69.8 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 98131.9 millions/s 0 % 47476.5 millions/s 51.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 57428.5 millions/s 0 % 23830.6 millions/s 58.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 3900, Core i7-5960X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 3900 Core i7-5960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 153.1 FPS 113.8 FPS
High settings 245.0 FPS 182.1 FPS
Medium settings 306.3 FPS 227.6 FPS
Low settings 382.8 FPS 284.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 25.7 %

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 3900 Core i7-5960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 168.1 FPS 144.8 FPS
High settings 269.0 FPS 231.7 FPS
Medium settings 336.3 FPS 289.7 FPS
Low settings 420.3 FPS 362.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.9 %
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