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General information Core i7-8700K Ryzen 5 3500X
Launched Q4 2017 Q4 2019
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket FCLGA1151-2 AM4
Series Name Intel Core i7 AMD Ryzen 5
Core Family Name Coffee Lake Matisse
Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 3.6 GHz 2.7 %
Turbo Clock 4.7 GHz 0 % 4.1 GHz 12.8 %
Cores 6 0 % 6 0 %
Threads 12 0 % 6 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 W 0 % 65 W 31.6 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 128 GB 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 7 nm 50 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 64 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
6 × 512 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 12 MB
2 × 16 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-8700K Ryzen 5 3500X
Overall Score 54512 0 % 54032 0.9 %
Future Proof 62 % 15.1 % 73 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 8830 0 % 8523 3.5 %
Single Thread Score 2711.1 0 % 2506 7.6 %
Encrypting Data 4808.4 MB/s 33.6 % 7237.6 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 193.7 MB/s 0 % 139.2 MB/s 28.1 %
String objects sorting 25748 thousand/s 0 % 16253.3 thousand/s 36.9 %
Prime numbers generation 38.9 millions/s 66.8 % 117.2 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 46312.6 millions/s 0 % 32564 millions/s 29.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 28658.6 millions/s 0 % 23289.9 millions/s 18.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-8700K, Ryzen 5 3500X.

Average frames per second Core i7-8700K Ryzen 5 3500X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 116.6 FPS 115.1 FPS
High settings 186.5 FPS 184.2 FPS
Medium settings 233.2 FPS 230.3 FPS
Low settings 291.5 FPS 287.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 1.2 %

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 i7-8700K Ryzen 5 3500X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 146.5 FPS 145.6 FPS
High settings 234.3 FPS 232.9 FPS
Medium settings 292.9 FPS 291.2 FPS
Low settings 366.2 FPS 364.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.6 %
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