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General information Ryzen 5 1500X Core i7-940
Launched Q2 2017 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA1366
Series Name AMD Ryzen 5 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Summit Ridge Bloomfield
Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 2.9 GHz 17.1 %
Turbo Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 13.5 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 8 0 % 8 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 50 % 130 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 68.9 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Data
4 × 64 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 4 × 512 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 2 × 8 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 5 1500X Core i7-940
Overall Score 49247 0 % 37153 24.6 %
Future Proof 59 % 0 % 10 % 83.1 %
Benchmark Score 5882 0 % 1905 67.6 %
Single Thread Score 2090.9 0 % 1319.2 36.9 %
Encrypting Data 8216 MB/s 0 % 4394.3 MB/s 46.5 %
Compressing Data 114.1 MB/s 0 % 63 MB/s 44.8 %
String objects sorting 14100.2 thousand/s 0 % 8828.3 thousand/s 37.4 %
Prime numbers generation 33.9 millions/s 0 % 21.8 millions/s 35.8 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 28711.7 millions/s 0 % 16252 millions/s 43.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 14910.4 millions/s 0 % 6950.5 millions/s 53.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 5 1500X, Core i7-940.

Average frames per second Ryzen 5 1500X Core i7-940
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 100.9 FPS 65.0 FPS
High settings 161.5 FPS 104.1 FPS
Medium settings 201.9 FPS 130.1 FPS
Low settings 252.3 FPS 162.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 35.6 %

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 1500X Core i7-940
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 137.3 FPS 116.0 FPS
High settings 219.7 FPS 185.7 FPS
Medium settings 274.6 FPS 232.1 FPS
Low settings 343.3 FPS 290.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 15.5 %
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