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General information Core i7-6900K Core i7-9700KF
Launched Q2 2016 Q2 2019
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2011-3 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name Intel Core i7 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Broadwell-E Coffee Lake Refresh
Clock 3.2 GHz 11.1 % 3.6 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 18.4 % 4.9 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 8 0 %
Threads 16 0 % 8 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 95 W 32.1 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 128 GB 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
8 × 1.5 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-6900K Core i7-9700KF
Overall Score 55407 0 % 55290 0.2 %
Future Proof 53 % 25.4 % 71 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 9425 0 % 9345 0.8 %
Single Thread Score 2354.7 18.6 % 2891.7 0 %
Encrypting Data 4044 MB/s 11.3 % 4557.7 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 218.7 MB/s 0 % 204.3 MB/s 6.6 %
String objects sorting 28574 thousand/s 0 % 26117.3 thousand/s 8.6 %
Prime numbers generation 63.7 millions/s 0 % 50.5 millions/s 20.6 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 51401.4 millions/s 0 % 41515.9 millions/s 19.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 33247.3 millions/s 5.1 % 35031.1 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-6900K, Core i7-9700KF.

Average frames per second Core i7-6900K Core i7-9700KF
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 118.8 FPS 118.5 FPS
High settings 190.0 FPS 189.6 FPS
Medium settings 237.5 FPS 237.0 FPS
Low settings 296.9 FPS 296.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.2 %

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 i7-6900K Core i7-9700KF
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 148.0 FPS 147.7 FPS
High settings 236.7 FPS 236.3 FPS
Medium settings 295.9 FPS 295.4 FPS
Low settings 369.9 FPS 369.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.2 %
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