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General information Core i9-7900X Core i7-6850K
Launched Q2 2017 Q2 2016
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 FCLGA2011-3
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Skylake-X Broadwell-E
Clock 3.3 GHz 8.3 % 3.6 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.5 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 11.1 %
Cores 10 0 % 6 40 %
Threads 20 0 % 12 40 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 140 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 10 × 1 MB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 13.75 MB
1 × 15 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7900X Core i7-6850K
Overall Score 60829 0 % 52181 14.2 %
Future Proof 59 % 0 % 53 % 10.2 %
Benchmark Score 13691 0 % 7414 45.8 %
Single Thread Score 2588.5 0 % 2379 8.1 %
Encrypting Data 7550.9 MB/s 0 % 3123.8 MB/s 58.6 %
Compressing Data 316.1 MB/s 0 % 166.1 MB/s 47.4 %
String objects sorting 40847 thousand/s 0 % 22397.7 thousand/s 45.2 %
Prime numbers generation 76.4 millions/s 0 % 49.5 millions/s 35.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 72467.5 millions/s 0 % 39974.9 millions/s 44.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 44822.4 millions/s 0 % 25869.2 millions/s 42.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7900X, Core i7-6850K.

Average frames per second Core i9-7900X Core i7-6850K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 135.3 FPS 109.7 FPS
High settings 216.5 FPS 175.5 FPS
Medium settings 270.7 FPS 219.3 FPS
Low settings 338.4 FPS 274.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 19 %

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 i9-7900X Core i7-6850K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 157.8 FPS 142.5 FPS
High settings 252.4 FPS 228.0 FPS
Medium settings 315.5 FPS 285.0 FPS
Low settings 394.4 FPS 356.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 9.7 %
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