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General information Core i9-9960X Core i7-6850K
Launched Q1 2019 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 3.1 GHz 13.9 % 3.6 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.4 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 9.1 %
Cores 16 0 % 6 62.5 %
Threads 32 0 % 12 62.5 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 140 W 15.2 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 1 MB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 22 MB
1 × 15 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-9960X Core i7-6850K
Overall Score 66672 0 % 52179 21.7 %
Future Proof 69 % 0 % 53 % 23.2 %
Benchmark Score 19760 0 % 7413 62.5 %
Single Thread Score 2608.8 0 % 2415 7.4 %
Encrypting Data 11469 MB/s 0 % 3167.9 MB/s 72.4 %
Compressing Data 499.3 MB/s 0 % 166.6 MB/s 66.6 %
String objects sorting 65574.9 thousand/s 0 % 22397.7 thousand/s 65.8 %
Prime numbers generation 113.1 millions/s 0 % 50 millions/s 55.8 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 118331 millions/s 0 % 39339.7 millions/s 66.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 73492.8 millions/s 0 % 25869.2 millions/s 64.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-9960X, Core i7-6850K.

Average frames per second Core i9-9960X Core i7-6850K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.7 FPS 109.7 FPS
High settings 244.4 FPS 175.5 FPS
Medium settings 305.5 FPS 219.3 FPS
Low settings 381.9 FPS 274.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 28.2 %

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 i9-9960X Core i7-6850K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 168.2 FPS 142.6 FPS
High settings 269.2 FPS 228.2 FPS
Medium settings 336.5 FPS 285.3 FPS
Low settings 420.6 FPS 356.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 15.2 %
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