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General information Ryzen 5 1600X Core i7-3970X
Launched Q2 2017 Q1 2012
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 % 3.5 GHz 2.8 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 0 %
Cores 6 0 % 6 0 %
Threads 12 0 % 12 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 W 36.7 % 150 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 i7-3970X
Overall Score 53915 0 % 48362 10.3 %
Future Proof 59 % 0 % 28 % 52.5 %
Benchmark Score 8449 0 % 5470 35.3 %
Single Thread Score 2186.8 0 % 1823.4 16.6 %
Encrypting Data 12642.8 MB/s 0 % 2706.8 MB/s 78.6 %
Compressing Data 178.2 MB/s 0 % 144.8 MB/s 18.7 %
String objects sorting 21832.1 thousand/s 0 % 21638 thousand/s 0.9 %
Prime numbers generation 35.1 millions/s 12.2 % 40 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 44818 millions/s 0 % 31952.4 millions/s 28.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 22992 millions/s 0 % 12621.5 millions/s 45.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 5 1600X, Core i7-3970X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 5 1600X Core i7-3970X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 114.9 FPS 98.3 FPS
High settings 183.8 FPS 157.3 FPS
Medium settings 229.7 FPS 196.7 FPS
Low settings 287.2 FPS 245.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 14.4 %

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 i7-3970X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.6 FPS 135.8 FPS
High settings 232.9 FPS 217.3 FPS
Medium settings 291.2 FPS 271.6 FPS
Low settings 363.9 FPS 339.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 6.7 %
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