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General information Ryzen 9 3950X Core i7-970
Launched Q4 2019 Q3 2010
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA1366
Series Name AMD Ryzen 9 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Matisse Gulftown
Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 8.6 %
Turbo Clock 4.7 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 25.5 %
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 i7-970
Overall Score 70772 0 % 45369 35.9 %
Future Proof 73 % 0 % 20 % 72.6 %
Benchmark Score 25086 0 % 4237 83.1 %
Single Thread Score 2691.5 0 % 1453.8 46 %
Encrypting Data 37850.8 MB/s 0 % 2486 MB/s 93.4 %
Compressing Data 579.8 MB/s 0 % 110.8 MB/s 80.9 %
String objects sorting 64155.2 thousand/s 0 % 14955.2 thousand/s 76.7 %
Prime numbers generation 184.3 millions/s 0 % 29.1 millions/s 84.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 132540 millions/s 0 % 27589.2 millions/s 79.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 78217.1 millions/s 0 % 11674.5 millions/s 85.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 3950X, Core i7-970.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 3950X Core i7-970
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 165.0 FPS 89.4 FPS
High settings 264.0 FPS 143.1 FPS
Medium settings 330.0 FPS 178.9 FPS
Low settings 412.5 FPS 223.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 45.8 %

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 9 3950X Core i7-970
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 175.5 FPS 130.6 FPS
High settings 280.7 FPS 208.9 FPS
Medium settings 350.9 FPS 261.1 FPS
Low settings 438.7 FPS 326.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 25.6 %
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