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General information Ryzen 5 3600 Core i7-3970X
Launched Q2 2019 Q1 2012
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA2011
Series Name AMD Ryzen 5 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Matisse Sandy Bridge-E
Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 2.8 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 4.8 %
Cores 6 0 % 6 0 %
Threads 12 0 % 12 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 56.7 % 150 W 0 %
Lithography 7 nm 78.1 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 512 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 2 × 16 MB
1 × 15 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 5 3600 Core i7-3970X
Overall Score 58215 0 % 48362 16.9 %
Future Proof 71 % 0 % 28 % 60.6 %
Benchmark Score 11485 0 % 5470 52.4 %
Single Thread Score 2557.7 0 % 1821.6 28.8 %
Encrypting Data 14054 MB/s 0 % 2701.4 MB/s 80.8 %
Compressing Data 215.3 MB/s 0 % 144.1 MB/s 33.1 %
String objects sorting 23898.9 thousand/s 0 % 21380.7 thousand/s 10.5 %
Prime numbers generation 108.4 millions/s 0 % 39.7 millions/s 63.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 48417.3 millions/s 0 % 32016.7 millions/s 33.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 28658.3 millions/s 0 % 12749 millions/s 55.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 5 3600, Core i7-3970X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 5 3600 Core i7-3970X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 127.6 FPS 98.3 FPS
High settings 204.2 FPS 157.3 FPS
Medium settings 255.3 FPS 196.7 FPS
Low settings 319.1 FPS 245.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 23 %

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 3600 Core i7-3970X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 153.1 FPS 135.7 FPS
High settings 244.9 FPS 217.2 FPS
Medium settings 306.2 FPS 271.4 FPS
Low settings 382.7 FPS 339.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 11.3 %
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