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General information Ryzen 5 1600X Core i7-3960X
Launched Q2 2017 Q4 2011
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA2011
Series Name AMD Ryzen 5 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Summit Ridge Sandy Bridge-E
Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3.3 GHz 8.3 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.9 GHz 2.5 %
Cores 6 0 % 6 0 %
Threads 12 0 % 12 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 W 26.9 % 130 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 56.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Data
6 × 64 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 512 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 2 × 8 MB
1 × 15 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 5 1600X Core i7-3960X
Overall Score 54040 0 % 48394 10.4 %
Future Proof 59 % 0 % 27 % 54.2 %
Benchmark Score 8528 0 % 5485 35.7 %
Single Thread Score 2199 0 % 1797 18.3 %
Encrypting Data 12524.4 MB/s 0 % 2539.9 MB/s 79.7 %
Compressing Data 179 MB/s 0 % 138.9 MB/s 22.4 %
String objects sorting 21983.1 thousand/s 0 % 20921 thousand/s 4.8 %
Prime numbers generation 35.2 millions/s 15.4 % 41.7 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 44806.9 millions/s 0 % 32694.3 millions/s 27 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23030 millions/s 0 % 12310.8 millions/s 46.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 5 1600X, Core i7-3960X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 5 1600X Core i7-3960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 114.7 FPS 98.0 FPS
High settings 183.6 FPS 156.8 FPS
Medium settings 229.4 FPS 196.0 FPS
Low settings 286.8 FPS 245.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 14.6 %

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 1600X Core i7-3960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.5 FPS 135.5 FPS
High settings 232.8 FPS 216.9 FPS
Medium settings 291.0 FPS 271.1 FPS
Low settings 363.7 FPS 338.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 6.8 %
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