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General information Core i9-7980XE Core i7-5820K
Launched Q3 2017 Q3 2014
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 LGA2011-v3
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Skylake-X Haswell-E
Clock 2.6 GHz 21.2 % 3.3 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 0 % 3.6 GHz 14.3 %
Cores 18 0 % 6 66.7 %
Threads 36 0 % 12 66.7 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 140 W 15.2 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 64 GB 50 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 18 × 32 kB Instruction
18 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 18 × 1 MB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 24 MB
1 × 15 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7980XE Core i7-5820K
Overall Score 66463 0 % 50223 24.4 %
Future Proof 60 % 0 % 43 % 28.3 %
Benchmark Score 19513 0 % 6362 67.4 %
Single Thread Score 2477.5 0 % 1984 19.9 %
Encrypting Data 11844.7 MB/s 0 % 2743.1 MB/s 76.8 %
Compressing Data 518.6 MB/s 0 % 144.8 MB/s 72.1 %
String objects sorting 64403.4 thousand/s 0 % 20535.6 thousand/s 68.1 %
Prime numbers generation 111.9 millions/s 0 % 45.6 millions/s 59.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 117241 millions/s 0 % 35527.5 millions/s 69.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 72550.3 millions/s 0 % 17816.3 millions/s 75.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7980XE, Core i7-5820K.

Average frames per second Core i9-7980XE Core i7-5820K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.1 FPS 103.9 FPS
High settings 243.4 FPS 166.2 FPS
Medium settings 304.2 FPS 207.7 FPS
Low settings 380.3 FPS 259.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 31.7 %

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 i9-7980XE Core i7-5820K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 167.6 FPS 139.0 FPS
High settings 268.1 FPS 222.5 FPS
Medium settings 335.1 FPS 278.1 FPS
Low settings 418.9 FPS 347.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 17 %
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