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General information Ryzen 5 3500X Core i7-3970X
Launched Q4 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 4.1 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 2.4 %
Cores 6 0 % 6 0 %
Threads 6 50 % 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 × 64 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 No Yes
Performance Ryzen 5 3500X Core i7-3970X
Overall Score 54026 0 % 48362 10.5 %
Future Proof 73 % 0 % 28 % 61.6 %
Benchmark Score 8519 0 % 5470 35.8 %
Single Thread Score 2487.5 0 % 1856.6 25.4 %
Encrypting Data 7249.2 MB/s 0 % 2696.1 MB/s 62.8 %
Compressing Data 141 MB/s 1.5 % 143.1 MB/s 0 %
String objects sorting 16356.6 thousand/s 24 % 21530.8 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 118.6 millions/s 0 % 39.8 millions/s 66.5 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 32425.4 millions/s 0 % 32337.8 millions/s 0.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23092.7 millions/s 0 % 12761.8 millions/s 44.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 5 3500X, Core i7-3970X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 5 3500X Core i7-3970X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 115.1 FPS 98.3 FPS
High settings 184.2 FPS 157.3 FPS
Medium settings 230.3 FPS 196.7 FPS
Low settings 287.8 FPS 245.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 14.6 %

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 3500X Core i7-3970X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.7 FPS 135.7 FPS
High settings 233.1 FPS 217.1 FPS
Medium settings 291.3 FPS 271.4 FPS
Low settings 364.1 FPS 339.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 6.8 %
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