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General information Core i9-7980XE Core i5-9600K
Launched Q3 2017 Q4 2018
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Skylake-X Coffee Lake Refresh
Clock 2.6 GHz 29.7 % 3.7 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 8.7 % 4.6 GHz 0 %
Cores 18 0 % 6 66.7 %
Threads 36 0 % 6 83.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 95 W 42.4 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 128 GB 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 18 × 32 kB Instruction
18 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 18 × 1 MB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 24 MB
6 × 1.5 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i9-7980XE Core i5-9600K
Overall Score 66463 0 % 51270 22.9 %
Future Proof 60 % 11.8 % 68 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 19513 0 % 6909 64.6 %
Single Thread Score 2477.5 8.9 % 2720.1 0 %
Encrypting Data 11844.7 MB/s 0 % 3272 MB/s 72.4 %
Compressing Data 518.6 MB/s 0 % 145.2 MB/s 72 %
String objects sorting 64403.4 thousand/s 0 % 18367.5 thousand/s 71.5 %
Prime numbers generation 111.9 millions/s 0 % 44.3 millions/s 60.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 117241 millions/s 0 % 29654.1 millions/s 74.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 72550.3 millions/s 0 % 25185.3 millions/s 65.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7980XE, Core i5-9600K.

Average frames per second Core i9-7980XE Core i5-9600K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.1 FPS 107.0 FPS
High settings 243.4 FPS 171.2 FPS
Medium settings 304.2 FPS 214.0 FPS
Low settings 380.3 FPS 267.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 29.7 %

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 i5-9600K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 167.6 FPS 140.8 FPS
High settings 268.1 FPS 225.3 FPS
Medium settings 335.1 FPS 281.7 FPS
Low settings 418.9 FPS 352.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 15.9 %
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