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General information Core i9-7960X Phenom II X6 1090T
Launched Q4 2017 Q2 2010
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket FCLGA2066 AM3
Series Name Intel Core i9 AMD Phenom II X6
Core Family Name Skylake-X Thuban
Clock 2.8 GHz 12.5 % 3.2 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 0 % 3.6 GHz 14.3 %
Cores 16 0 % 6 62.5 %
Threads 32 0 % 6 81.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 125 W 24.2 %
Lithography 14 nm 68.9 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
6 × 64 kB Instruction
6 × 64 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 1 MB
6 × 512 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 22 MB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i9-7960X Phenom II X6 1090T
Overall Score 65645 0 % 39481 39.9 %
Future Proof 62 % 0 % 18 % 71 %
Benchmark Score 18570 0 % 2430 86.9 %
Single Thread Score 2528.6 0 % 1466.6 42 %
Encrypting Data 11116.1 MB/s 0 % 5519.6 MB/s 50.3 %
Compressing Data 473.6 MB/s 0 % 84.3 MB/s 82.2 %
String objects sorting 58777.9 thousand/s 0 % 10700.8 thousand/s 81.8 %
Prime numbers generation 103.2 millions/s 0 % 19.1 millions/s 81.5 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 107681 millions/s 0 % 11635 millions/s 89.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 66332 millions/s 0 % 8384.9 millions/s 87.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7960X, Phenom II X6 1090T.

Average frames per second Core i9-7960X Phenom II X6 1090T
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 149.7 FPS 72.0 FPS
High settings 239.5 FPS 115.1 FPS
Medium settings 299.4 FPS 143.9 FPS
Low settings 374.3 FPS 179.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 51.9 %

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 i9-7960X Phenom II X6 1090T
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 166.1 FPS 120.0 FPS
High settings 265.8 FPS 191.9 FPS
Medium settings 332.3 FPS 239.9 FPS
Low settings 415.4 FPS 299.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 27.8 %
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