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General information Core i9-9960X Core i5-6500T
Launched Q1 2019 Q4 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 LGA1151
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Skylake-X Skylake-S
Clock 3.1 GHz 0 % 2.5 GHz 19.4 %
Turbo Clock 4.4 GHz 0 % 3.1 GHz 29.5 %
Cores 16 0 % 4 75 %
Threads 32 0 % 4 87.5 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 35 W 78.8 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 64 GB 50 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 14 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 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i9-9960X Core i5-6500T
Overall Score 66672 0 % 41930 37.1 %
Future Proof 69 % 0 % 50 % 27.5 %
Benchmark Score 19760 0 % 3091 84.4 %
Single Thread Score 2608.8 0 % 1773.1 32 %
Encrypting Data 11366.6 MB/s 0 % 1438.4 MB/s 87.3 %
Compressing Data 499.8 MB/s 0 % 61.9 MB/s 87.6 %
String objects sorting 64795 thousand/s 0 % 8025 thousand/s 87.6 %
Prime numbers generation 113.6 millions/s 0 % 24.9 millions/s 78.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 118096 millions/s 0 % 12184.3 millions/s 89.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 72980.4 millions/s 0 % 10583.6 millions/s 85.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-9960X, Core i5-6500T.

Average frames per second Core i9-9960X Core i5-6500T
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.7 FPS 79.2 FPS
High settings 244.4 FPS 126.8 FPS
Medium settings 305.5 FPS 158.5 FPS
Low settings 381.9 FPS 198.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 48.1 %

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 i5-6500T
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 168.0 FPS 124.4 FPS
High settings 268.7 FPS 199.1 FPS
Medium settings 335.9 FPS 248.8 FPS
Low settings 419.9 FPS 311.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 25.9 %
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