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General information Ryzen 9 3950X Core i7-3960X
Launched Q4 2019 Q4 2011
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA2011
Series Name AMD Ryzen 9 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Matisse Sandy Bridge-E
Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 3.3 GHz 5.7 %
Turbo Clock 4.7 GHz 0 % 3.9 GHz 17 %
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 × 15 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 9 3950X Core i7-3960X
Overall Score 70771 0 % 48276 31.8 %
Future Proof 73 % 0 % 27 % 63 %
Benchmark Score 25086 0 % 5431 78.4 %
Single Thread Score 2678 0 % 1813.2 32.3 %
Encrypting Data 37737.7 MB/s 0 % 2539.9 MB/s 93.3 %
Compressing Data 571.2 MB/s 0 % 138.5 MB/s 75.8 %
String objects sorting 63703.3 thousand/s 0 % 20963 thousand/s 67.1 %
Prime numbers generation 182.3 millions/s 0 % 42.1 millions/s 76.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 134681 millions/s 0 % 33056.9 millions/s 75.5 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 78532.4 millions/s 0 % 12347.6 millions/s 84.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 3950X, Core i7-3960X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 3950X Core i7-3960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 164.9 FPS 98.1 FPS
High settings 263.9 FPS 156.9 FPS
Medium settings 329.8 FPS 196.2 FPS
Low settings 412.3 FPS 245.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 40.5 %

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 i7-3960X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 175.2 FPS 135.6 FPS
High settings 280.3 FPS 217.0 FPS
Medium settings 350.3 FPS 271.2 FPS
Low settings 437.9 FPS 339.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 22.6 %
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