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General information Core i9-7980XE Core i7-7700K
Launched Q3 2017 Q4 2016
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 LGA1151
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Skylake-X Kaby Lake-S
Clock 2.6 GHz 38.1 % 4.2 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 6.7 % 4.5 GHz 0 %
Cores 18 0 % 4 77.8 %
Threads 36 0 % 8 77.8 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 95 W 42.4 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 64 GB 50 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 18 × 32 kB Instruction
18 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 18 × 1 MB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 24 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7980XE Core i7-7700K
Overall Score 66461 0 % 49986 24.8 %
Future Proof 60 % 0 % 56 % 6.7 %
Benchmark Score 19511 0 % 6243 68 %
Single Thread Score 2502.3 7.2 % 2697.5 0 %
Encrypting Data 11844.7 MB/s 0 % 3369.1 MB/s 71.6 %
Compressing Data 516.5 MB/s 0 % 132.7 MB/s 74.3 %
String objects sorting 64144.5 thousand/s 0 % 17335 thousand/s 73 %
Prime numbers generation 111.6 millions/s 0 % 30.7 millions/s 72.5 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 116542 millions/s 0 % 30625.3 millions/s 73.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 71685.8 millions/s 0 % 18958.1 millions/s 73.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7980XE, Core i7-7700K.

Average frames per second Core i9-7980XE Core i7-7700K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.1 FPS 103.1 FPS
High settings 243.4 FPS 165.0 FPS
Medium settings 304.2 FPS 206.3 FPS
Low settings 380.3 FPS 257.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 32.2 %

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 i9-7980XE Core i7-7700K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 167.6 FPS 138.6 FPS
High settings 268.1 FPS 221.8 FPS
Medium settings 335.1 FPS 277.2 FPS
Low settings 418.9 FPS 346.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 17.3 %
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