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General information Core i9-7960X Core i3-8100
Launched Q4 2017 Q4 2017
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i3
Core Family Name Skylake-X Coffee Lake
Clock 2.8 GHz 22.2 % 3.6 GHz 0 %
Cores 16 0 % 4 75 %
Threads 32 0 % 4 87.5 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 65 W 60.6 %
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
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 16 × 1 MB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 22 MB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i9-7960X Core i3-8100
Overall Score 65678 0 % 44598 32.1 %
Future Proof 62 % 0 % 62 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 18607 0 % 3956 78.7 %
Single Thread Score 2501 0 % 2213.3 11.5 %
Encrypting Data 11270.9 MB/s 0 % 1821.2 MB/s 83.8 %
Compressing Data 473.5 MB/s 0 % 81.2 MB/s 82.8 %
String objects sorting 59383.4 thousand/s 0 % 10269.7 thousand/s 82.7 %
Prime numbers generation 102 millions/s 0 % 28.1 millions/s 72.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 107923 millions/s 0 % 16221.9 millions/s 85 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 67218.2 millions/s 0 % 13895.9 millions/s 79.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7960X, Core i3-8100.

Average frames per second Core i9-7960X Core i3-8100
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 149.8 FPS 87.2 FPS
High settings 239.6 FPS 139.5 FPS
Medium settings 299.5 FPS 174.4 FPS
Low settings 374.4 FPS 218.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 41.8 %

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 i9-7960X Core i3-8100
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 166.2 FPS 129.1 FPS
High settings 266.0 FPS 206.6 FPS
Medium settings 332.5 FPS 258.2 FPS
Low settings 415.6 FPS 322.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 22.3 %
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