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General information Core i9-7980XE A8-5600K
Launched Q3 2017 Q4 2012
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket FCLGA2066 FM2
Series Name Intel Core i9 AMD A8
Core Family Name Skylake-X Trinity
Clock 2.6 GHz 27.8 % 3.6 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 0 % 3.9 GHz 7.1 %
Cores 18 0 % 4 77.8 %
Threads 36 0 % 4 88.9 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 100 W 39.4 %
Lithography 14 nm 56.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 18 × 32 kB Instruction
18 × 32 kB Data
4 × 16 kB Data
2 × 64 kB Instruction
L2 Cache 18 × 1 MB
1 × 4 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i9-7980XE A8-5600K
Overall Score 66438 0 % 36846 44.5 %
Future Proof 60 % 0 % 33 % 45 %
Benchmark Score 19484 0 % 1843 90.5 %
Single Thread Score 2486.4 0 % 1436.2 42.2 %
Encrypting Data 11706 MB/s 0 % 4183.2 MB/s 64.3 %
Compressing Data 518.9 MB/s 0 % 46.7 MB/s 91 %
String objects sorting 64296.9 thousand/s 0 % 6019.5 thousand/s 90.6 %
Prime numbers generation 109.6 millions/s 0 % 11.1 millions/s 89.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 116418 millions/s 0 % 19018.4 millions/s 83.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 71543.1 millions/s 0 % 4956.1 millions/s 93.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7980XE, A8-5600K.

Average frames per second Core i9-7980XE A8-5600K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.0 FPS 64.1 FPS
High settings 243.3 FPS 102.6 FPS
Medium settings 304.1 FPS 128.2 FPS
Low settings 380.1 FPS 160.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 57.8 %

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 Core i9-7980XE A8-5600K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 167.5 FPS 115.4 FPS
High settings 268.0 FPS 184.7 FPS
Medium settings 335.0 FPS 230.8 FPS
Low settings 418.7 FPS 288.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 31.1 %
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