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General information Core i9-10900 Core i7-6950X
Launched Q2 2020 Q2 2016
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA1200 LGA2011-v3
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i7 Extreme
Core Family Name Comet Lake Broadwell-E
Clock 2.8 GHz 6.7 % 3 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 5.2 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 23.1 %
Cores 10 0 % 10 0 %
Threads 20 0 % 20 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 53.6 % 140 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 10 × 256 kB
10 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 25 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-10900 Core i7-6950X
Overall Score 59873 0 % 57930 3.2 %
Future Proof 76 % 0 % 53 % 30.3 %
Benchmark Score 12851 0 % 11262 12.4 %
Single Thread Score 3034 0 % 2334 23.1 %
Encrypting Data 7016 MB/s 0 % 5019.8 MB/s 28.5 %
Compressing Data 305.1 MB/s 0 % 270.2 MB/s 11.4 %
String objects sorting 39044.2 thousand/s 0 % 35548.8 thousand/s 9 %
Prime numbers generation 57 millions/s 27.4 % 78.5 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 78551.5 millions/s 0 % 64087.2 millions/s 18.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 47966.9 millions/s 0 % 41170.2 millions/s 14.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-10900, Core i7-6950X.

Average frames per second Core i9-10900 Core i7-6950X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 132.5 FPS 126.8 FPS
High settings 212.1 FPS 202.9 FPS
Medium settings 265.1 FPS 253.6 FPS
Low settings 331.4 FPS 317.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 4.3 %

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 i9-10900 Core i7-6950X
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 156.0 FPS 152.6 FPS
High settings 249.6 FPS 244.1 FPS
Medium settings 312.0 FPS 305.1 FPS
Low settings 390.0 FPS 381.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 2.2 %
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