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General information Core i7-6900K Core i7-9700KF
Launched Q2 2016 Q2 2019
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2011-3 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name Intel Core i7 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Broadwell-E Coffee Lake Refresh
Clock 3.2 GHz 11.1 % 3.6 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 18.4 % 4.9 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 8 0 %
Threads 16 0 % 8 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 95 W 32.1 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 128 GB 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
8 × 1.5 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-6900K Core i7-9700KF
Overall Score 55270 0 % 55146 0.2 %
Future Proof 53 % 25.4 % 71 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 9332 0 % 9248 0.9 %
Single Thread Score 2344.7 18.2 % 2865.6 0 %
Encrypting Data 4032.7 MB/s 11.1 % 4535.1 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 219.4 MB/s 0 % 203.3 MB/s 7.4 %
String objects sorting 28411.9 thousand/s 0 % 26007.1 thousand/s 8.5 %
Prime numbers generation 63.6 millions/s 0 % 51.4 millions/s 19.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 51315 millions/s 0 % 41389 millions/s 19.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 33594.1 millions/s 5.5 % 35535.8 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-6900K, Core i7-9700KF.

Average frames per second Core i7-6900K Core i7-9700KF
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 118.9 FPS 118.5 FPS
High settings 190.2 FPS 189.6 FPS
Medium settings 237.7 FPS 237.0 FPS
Low settings 297.2 FPS 296.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.3 %

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 i7-6900K Core i7-9700KF
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 147.9 FPS 147.6 FPS
High settings 236.6 FPS 236.2 FPS
Medium settings 295.8 FPS 295.3 FPS
Low settings 369.7 FPS 369.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.2 %
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