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General information Core i9-9960X Core i3-7100
Launched Q1 2019 Q1 2017
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 FCLGA1151
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i3
Core Family Name Skylake-X Kaby Lake-S
Clock 3.1 GHz 20.5 % 3.9 GHz 0 %
Cores 16 0 % 2 87.5 %
Threads 32 0 % 4 87.5 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 51 W 69.1 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 64 GB 50 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 16 × 32 kB Instruction
16 × 32 kB Data
2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 1 MB
2 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 22 MB
1 × 3 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-9960X Core i3-7100
Overall Score 66672 0 % 40916 38.6 %
Future Proof 69 % 0 % 57 % 17.4 %
Benchmark Score 19760 0 % 2803 85.8 %
Single Thread Score 2634.9 0 % 2330.8 11.5 %
Encrypting Data 11275.6 MB/s 0 % 1434.9 MB/s 87.3 %
Compressing Data 498.3 MB/s 0 % 57.7 MB/s 88.4 %
String objects sorting 64860 thousand/s 0 % 7630 thousand/s 88.2 %
Prime numbers generation 113.9 millions/s 0 % 14 millions/s 87.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 117273 millions/s 0 % 13288 millions/s 88.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 72687.6 millions/s 0 % 8204.6 millions/s 88.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-9960X, Core i3-7100.

Average frames per second Core i9-9960X Core i3-7100
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.7 FPS 76.3 FPS
High settings 244.4 FPS 122.0 FPS
Medium settings 305.5 FPS 152.5 FPS
Low settings 381.9 FPS 190.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 50.1 %

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 i3-7100
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 168.0 FPS 122.7 FPS
High settings 268.9 FPS 196.3 FPS
Medium settings 336.1 FPS 245.3 FPS
Low settings 420.1 FPS 306.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 27 %
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