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General information Ryzen 9 5900X Core i7-980X
Launched Q4 2020 Q1 2010
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA1366
Series Name AMD Ryzen 9 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Vermeer Gulftown
Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 3.3 GHz 10.8 %
Turbo Clock 4.8 GHz 0 % 3.6 GHz 25 %
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 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 12 × 512 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 2 × 32 MB
1 × 12 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 9 5900X Core i7-980X
Overall Score 70947 0 % 45837 35.4 %
Future Proof 79 % 0 % 17 % 78.5 %
Benchmark Score 25336 0 % 4414 82.6 %
Single Thread Score 3467.5 0 % 1528.5 55.9 %
Encrypting Data 31585.7 MB/s 0 % 2536.5 MB/s 92 %
Compressing Data 492.3 MB/s 0 % 113.2 MB/s 77 %
String objects sorting 51938.7 thousand/s 0 % 15593.8 thousand/s 70 %
Prime numbers generation 257 millions/s 0 % 32.9 millions/s 87.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 143313 millions/s 0 % 28199.2 millions/s 80.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 78381.1 millions/s 0 % 11904.2 millions/s 84.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 5900X, Core i7-980X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 5900X Core i7-980X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 165.4 FPS 90.8 FPS
High settings 264.7 FPS 145.3 FPS
Medium settings 330.9 FPS 181.7 FPS
Low settings 413.6 FPS 227.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 45.1 %

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 5900X Core i7-980X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 175.5 FPS 131.3 FPS
High settings 280.8 FPS 210.1 FPS
Medium settings 351.0 FPS 262.7 FPS
Low settings 438.8 FPS 328.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 25.2 %
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