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General information Core i9-9960X Core i7-4790K
Launched Q1 2019 Q2 2014
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 LGA1150
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Skylake-X Haswell Refresh
Clock 3.1 GHz 22.5 % 4 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.4 GHz 0 % 4.4 GHz 0 %
Cores 16 0 % 4 75 %
Threads 32 0 % 8 75 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 88 W 46.7 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 1 MB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 22 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-9960X Core i7-4790K
Overall Score 66672 0 % 47789 28.3 %
Future Proof 69 % 0 % 42 % 39.1 %
Benchmark Score 19760 0 % 5215 73.6 %
Single Thread Score 2611.4 0 % 2460.1 5.8 %
Encrypting Data 11287 MB/s 0 % 2241.7 MB/s 80.1 %
Compressing Data 505.3 MB/s 0 % 118.6 MB/s 76.5 %
String objects sorting 64860 thousand/s 0 % 16608 thousand/s 74.4 %
Prime numbers generation 112.8 millions/s 0 % 33.8 millions/s 70 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 117861 millions/s 0 % 29421.5 millions/s 75 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 72760.8 millions/s 0 % 14569.5 millions/s 80 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-9960X, Core i7-4790K.

Average frames per second Core i9-9960X Core i7-4790K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.7 FPS 96.6 FPS
High settings 244.4 FPS 154.6 FPS
Medium settings 305.5 FPS 193.2 FPS
Low settings 381.9 FPS 241.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 36.7 %

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 i9-9960X Core i7-4790K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 168.0 FPS 134.8 FPS
High settings 268.7 FPS 215.6 FPS
Medium settings 335.9 FPS 269.6 FPS
Low settings 419.9 FPS 336.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 19.8 %
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