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General information Ryzen 9 3900X Core i7-980
Launched Q3 2019 Q3 2011
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA1366
Series Name AMD Ryzen 9 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Matisse Gulftown
Clock 3.8 GHz 0 % 3.3 GHz 13.2 %
Turbo Clock 4.6 GHz 0 % 3.6 GHz 21.7 %
Cores 12 0 % 6 50 %
Threads 24 0 % 12 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 105 W 19.2 % 130 W 0 %
Lithography 7 nm 78.1 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 12 × 32 kB Instruction
12 × 64 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 12 × 512 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 4 × 16 MB
1 × 12 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 9 3900X Core i7-980
Overall Score 67786 0 % 46001 32.1 %
Future Proof 72 % 0 % 26 % 63.9 %
Benchmark Score 21113 0 % 4478 78.8 %
Single Thread Score 2693.5 0 % 1525.2 43.4 %
Encrypting Data 28534.6 MB/s 0 % 2663.8 MB/s 90.7 %
Compressing Data 442.4 MB/s 0 % 116.2 MB/s 73.7 %
String objects sorting 49055.6 thousand/s 0 % 15925.7 thousand/s 67.5 %
Prime numbers generation 216.5 millions/s 0 % 32.2 millions/s 85.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 99922 millions/s 0 % 29294.3 millions/s 70.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 58677.1 millions/s 0 % 12220.4 millions/s 79.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 3900X, Core i7-980.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 3900X Core i7-980
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 156.1 FPS 91.3 FPS
High settings 249.7 FPS 146.1 FPS
Medium settings 312.2 FPS 182.6 FPS
Low settings 390.2 FPS 228.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 41.5 %

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 i7-980
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 169.9 FPS 131.6 FPS
High settings 271.9 FPS 210.5 FPS
Medium settings 339.9 FPS 263.2 FPS
Low settings 424.8 FPS 328.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 22.6 %
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