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General information Core i7-4960X Ryzen 5 1500X
Launched Q1 2013 Q2 2017
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA2011 AM4
Series Name Intel Core i7 Extreme AMD Ryzen 5
Core Family Name Ivy Bridge-E Summit Ridge
Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 2.8 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.7 GHz 7.5 %
Cores 6 0 % 4 33.3 %
Threads 12 0 % 8 33.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 W 0 % 65 W 50 %
Lithography 22 nm 0 % 14 nm 36.4 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Data
4 × 64 kB Instruction
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
4 × 512 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 15 MB
2 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i7-4960X Ryzen 5 1500X
Overall Score 50664 0 % 49361 2.6 %
Future Proof 34 % 42.4 % 59 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 6589 0 % 5936 9.9 %
Single Thread Score 2084.1 1 % 2105.7 0 %
Encrypting Data 2986 MB/s 63.7 % 8229.4 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 162.7 MB/s 0 % 113.4 MB/s 30.3 %
String objects sorting 22898.9 thousand/s 0 % 14103.2 thousand/s 38.4 %
Prime numbers generation 48.1 millions/s 0 % 33.7 millions/s 30 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 37065 millions/s 0 % 28645.3 millions/s 22.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 18737.1 millions/s 0 % 14935.1 millions/s 20.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-4960X, Ryzen 5 1500X.

Average frames per second Core i7-4960X Ryzen 5 1500X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 104.7 FPS 100.9 FPS
High settings 167.6 FPS 161.4 FPS
Medium settings 209.5 FPS 201.8 FPS
Low settings 261.8 FPS 252.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 3.7 %

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 i7-4960X Ryzen 5 1500X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 139.6 FPS 137.3 FPS
High settings 223.3 FPS 219.6 FPS
Medium settings 279.1 FPS 274.5 FPS
Low settings 348.9 FPS 343.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 1.6 %
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