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General information Core i9-7980XE Core i9-9900KF
Launched Q3 2017 Q2 2019
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i9
Core Family Name Skylake-X Coffee Lake Refresh
Clock 2.6 GHz 27.8 % 3.6 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 16 % 5 GHz 0 %
Cores 18 0 % 8 55.6 %
Threads 36 0 % 16 55.6 %
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
8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 18 × 1 MB
8 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 24 MB
8 × 2 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7980XE Core i9-9900KF
Overall Score 66461 0 % 58668 11.7 %
Future Proof 60 % 15.5 % 71 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 19511 0 % 11847 39.3 %
Single Thread Score 2475 15 % 2912.5 0 %
Encrypting Data 11821.2 MB/s 0 % 6554.6 MB/s 44.6 %
Compressing Data 513.4 MB/s 0 % 276.2 MB/s 46.2 %
String objects sorting 64468.1 thousand/s 0 % 36859.6 thousand/s 42.8 %
Prime numbers generation 110.1 millions/s 0 % 47.3 millions/s 57 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 115610 millions/s 0 % 65835.6 millions/s 43.1 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 71685.8 millions/s 0 % 41307.6 millions/s 42.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7980XE, Core i9-9900KF.

Average frames per second Core i9-7980XE Core i9-9900KF
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.1 FPS 129.0 FPS
High settings 243.4 FPS 206.4 FPS
Medium settings 304.2 FPS 258.0 FPS
Low settings 380.3 FPS 322.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 15.2 %

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 i9-9900KF
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 167.9 FPS 154.1 FPS
High settings 268.6 FPS 246.6 FPS
Medium settings 335.7 FPS 308.2 FPS
Low settings 419.7 FPS 385.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 8.2 %
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