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General information Ryzen 9 7900X Core i7-3970X
Launched Q3 2022 Q1 2012
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM5 LGA2011
Series Name AMD Ryzen 9 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Raphael Sandy Bridge-E
Clock 4.7 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 25.5 %
Turbo Clock 5.6 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 28.6 %
Cores 12 0 % 6 50 %
Threads 24 0 % 12 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 170 W 0 % 150 W 11.8 %
Lithography 5 nm 84.4 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 12 × 32 kB Instruction
12 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 12 × 1 MB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 64 MB
1 × 15 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 9 7900X Core i7-3970X
Overall Score 76108 0 % 48362 36.5 %
Future Proof 89 % 0 % 28 % 68.5 %
Benchmark Score 33552 0 % 5470 83.7 %
Single Thread Score 4280.8 0 % 1856.6 56.6 %
Encrypting Data 37972.4 MB/s 0 % 2696.1 MB/s 92.9 %
Compressing Data 623.6 MB/s 0 % 143.1 MB/s 77.1 %
String objects sorting 75439.9 thousand/s 0 % 21530.8 thousand/s 71.5 %
Prime numbers generation 386.8 millions/s 0 % 39.8 millions/s 89.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 170308 millions/s 0 % 32337.8 millions/s 81 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 104651 millions/s 0 % 12761.8 millions/s 87.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 9 7900X, Core i7-3970X.

Average frames per second Ryzen 9 7900X Core i7-3970X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 180.8 FPS 98.3 FPS
High settings 289.3 FPS 157.3 FPS
Medium settings 361.6 FPS 196.7 FPS
Low settings 452.0 FPS 245.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 45.6 %

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 9 7900X Core i7-3970X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 184.5 FPS 135.7 FPS
High settings 295.3 FPS 217.1 FPS
Medium settings 369.1 FPS 271.4 FPS
Low settings 461.3 FPS 339.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 26.5 %
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