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General information Ryzen 5 3500X Core i7-8700
Launched Q4 2019 Q4 2017
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name AMD Ryzen 5 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Matisse Coffee Lake
Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 11.1 %
Turbo Clock 4.1 GHz 10.9 % 4.6 GHz 0 %
Cores 6 0 % 6 0 %
Threads 6 50 % 12 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 0 % 65 W 0 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 128 GB 0 %
Lithography 7 nm 50 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 64 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 512 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 2 × 16 MB
1 × 12 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No Yes
Performance Ryzen 5 3500X Core i7-8700
Overall Score 54160 0 % 53842 0.6 %
Future Proof 73 % 0 % 62 % 15.1 %
Benchmark Score 8604 0 % 8404 2.3 %
Single Thread Score 2486 6.5 % 2658.2 0 %
Encrypting Data 7274.1 MB/s 0 % 4554.4 MB/s 37.4 %
Compressing Data 139.3 MB/s 23.9 % 183.1 MB/s 0 %
String objects sorting 16385 thousand/s 32.7 % 24353.6 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 117.9 millions/s 0 % 35 millions/s 70.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 32333.4 millions/s 28.3 % 45095.4 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23290.9 millions/s 16.4 % 27867.2 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

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

Average frames per second Ryzen 5 3500X Core i7-8700
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 115.1 FPS 114.1 FPS
High settings 184.1 FPS 182.6 FPS
Medium settings 230.2 FPS 228.3 FPS
Low settings 287.7 FPS 285.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.8 %

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 5 3500X Core i7-8700
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.8 FPS 145.2 FPS
High settings 233.2 FPS 232.3 FPS
Medium settings 291.5 FPS 290.4 FPS
Low settings 364.4 FPS 363.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.4 %
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