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General information Ryzen 7 1700 Core i7-3960X
Launched Q1 2017 Q4 2011
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA2011
Series Name AMD Ryzen 7 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Summit Ridge Sandy Bridge-E
Clock 3 GHz 9.1 % 3.3 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.7 GHz 5.1 % 3.9 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 6 25 %
Threads 16 0 % 12 25 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 50 % 130 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 56.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Data
8 × 64 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 512 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 2 × 8 MB
1 × 15 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 7 1700 Core i7-3960X
Overall Score 55632 0 % 48276 13.2 %
Future Proof 57 % 0 % 27 % 52.6 %
Benchmark Score 9579 0 % 5431 43.3 %
Single Thread Score 2015 0 % 1791.6 11.1 %
Encrypting Data 14853.2 MB/s 0 % 2580.9 MB/s 82.6 %
Compressing Data 211 MB/s 0 % 138.2 MB/s 34.5 %
String objects sorting 25840.8 thousand/s 0 % 21089 thousand/s 18.4 %
Prime numbers generation 35.9 millions/s 15.1 % 42.3 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 52594.4 millions/s 0 % 32958 millions/s 37.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 27348.6 millions/s 0 % 12163.5 millions/s 55.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 7 1700, Core i7-3960X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 7 1700 Core i7-3960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 120.0 FPS 98.1 FPS
High settings 191.9 FPS 156.9 FPS
Medium settings 239.9 FPS 196.2 FPS
Low settings 299.9 FPS 245.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 18.2 %

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 7 1700 Core i7-3960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 148.6 FPS 135.7 FPS
High settings 237.8 FPS 217.0 FPS
Medium settings 297.2 FPS 271.3 FPS
Low settings 371.5 FPS 339.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 8.7 %
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