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General information Ryzen 9 5900X Xeon E5-1660
Launched Q4 2020 Q3 2012
Used in Desktop Server
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA2011
Series Name AMD Ryzen 9 Intel Xeon E5
Core Family Name Vermeer Sandy Bridge-EP
Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 3.3 GHz 10.8 %
Turbo Clock 4.8 GHz 0 % 3.9 GHz 18.8 %
Cores 12 0 % 6 50 %
Threads 24 0 % 12 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 105 W 19.2 % 130 W 0 %
Lithography 7 nm 78.1 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 12 × 32 kB Instruction
12 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 12 × 512 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 2 × 32 MB
1 × 15 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 9 5900X Xeon E5-1660
Overall Score 70947 0 % 48281 31.9 %
Future Proof 79 % 0 % 31 % 60.8 %
Benchmark Score 25336 0 % 5434 78.6 %
Single Thread Score 3471 0 % 1792.4 48.4 %
Encrypting Data 31491.8 MB/s 0 % 2579.2 MB/s 91.8 %
Compressing Data 492.8 MB/s 0 % 138.7 MB/s 71.8 %
String objects sorting 52512.8 thousand/s 0 % 21031.9 thousand/s 59.9 %
Prime numbers generation 255.3 millions/s 0 % 42.2 millions/s 83.5 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 142744 millions/s 0 % 32705.6 millions/s 77.1 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 78147.8 millions/s 0 % 12245.2 millions/s 84.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 5900X, Xeon E5-1660.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 5900X Xeon E5-1660
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 165.4 FPS 98.1 FPS
High settings 264.7 FPS 157.0 FPS
Medium settings 330.9 FPS 196.2 FPS
Low settings 413.6 FPS 245.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 40.7 %

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 5900X Xeon E5-1660
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 175.6 FPS 135.7 FPS
High settings 280.9 FPS 217.1 FPS
Medium settings 351.2 FPS 271.3 FPS
Low settings 438.9 FPS 339.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 22.7 %
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