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General information Core i9-7980XE Core i9-10900K
Launched Q3 2017 Q2 2020
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 FCLGA1200
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i9
Core Family Name Skylake-X Comet Lake
Clock 2.6 GHz 29.7 % 3.7 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 20.8 % 5.3 GHz 0 %
Cores 18 0 % 10 44.4 %
Threads 36 0 % 20 44.4 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 125 W 24.2 %
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
10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 18 × 1 MB
10 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 24 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7980XE Core i9-10900K
Overall Score 66467 0 % 62058 6.6 %
Future Proof 60 % 21.1 % 76 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 19518 0 % 14831 24 %
Single Thread Score 2463.6 21.8 % 3151.7 0 %
Encrypting Data 11735.3 MB/s 0 % 8226.8 MB/s 29.9 %
Compressing Data 518.8 MB/s 0 % 370.4 MB/s 28.6 %
String objects sorting 64703.2 thousand/s 0 % 46534.9 thousand/s 28.1 %
Prime numbers generation 112 millions/s 0 % 63.9 millions/s 43 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 116114 millions/s 0 % 86241.1 millions/s 25.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 71352.3 millions/s 0 % 53568 millions/s 24.9 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7980XE, Core i9-10900K.

Average frames per second Core i9-7980XE Core i9-10900K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 152.1 FPS 139.0 FPS
High settings 243.4 FPS 222.5 FPS
Medium settings 304.3 FPS 278.1 FPS
Low settings 380.3 FPS 347.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 8.6 %

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 i9-10900K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 168.1 FPS 160.3 FPS
High settings 269.0 FPS 256.4 FPS
Medium settings 336.2 FPS 320.6 FPS
Low settings 420.2 FPS 400.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 4.7 %
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