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General information Ryzen 9 3950X Core i7-980X
Launched Q4 2019 Q1 2010
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA1366
Series Name AMD Ryzen 9 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Matisse Gulftown
Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 3.3 GHz 5.7 %
Turbo Clock 4.7 GHz 0 % 3.6 GHz 23.4 %
Cores 16 0 % 6 62.5 %
Threads 32 0 % 12 62.5 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 105 W 19.2 % 130 W 0 %
Lithography 7 nm 78.1 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 64 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 512 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 4 × 16 MB
1 × 12 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 9 3950X Core i7-980X
Overall Score 70772 0 % 45837 35.2 %
Future Proof 73 % 0 % 17 % 76.7 %
Benchmark Score 25086 0 % 4414 82.4 %
Single Thread Score 2699.6 0 % 1528.5 43.4 %
Encrypting Data 38079 MB/s 0 % 2536.5 MB/s 93.3 %
Compressing Data 572.9 MB/s 0 % 113.2 MB/s 80.2 %
String objects sorting 63835 thousand/s 0 % 15593.8 thousand/s 75.6 %
Prime numbers generation 184.3 millions/s 0 % 32.9 millions/s 82.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 134143 millions/s 0 % 28199.2 millions/s 79 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 77905.9 millions/s 0 % 11904.2 millions/s 84.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 3950X, Core i7-980X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 3950X Core i7-980X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 164.9 FPS 90.8 FPS
High settings 263.9 FPS 145.3 FPS
Medium settings 329.8 FPS 181.7 FPS
Low settings 412.3 FPS 227.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 44.9 %

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 i7-980X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 175.2 FPS 131.3 FPS
High settings 280.3 FPS 210.1 FPS
Medium settings 350.3 FPS 262.7 FPS
Low settings 437.9 FPS 328.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 25 %
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