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General information Core i9-7960X Core i7-4790
Launched Q4 2017 Q2 2014
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 FCLGA1150
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Skylake-X Haswell Refresh
Clock 2.8 GHz 22.2 % 3.6 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 0 % 4 GHz 4.8 %
Cores 16 0 % 4 75 %
Threads 32 0 % 8 75 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 84 W 49.1 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 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 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-7960X Core i7-4790
Overall Score 65663 0 % 46559 29.1 %
Future Proof 62 % 0 % 42 % 32.3 %
Benchmark Score 18590 0 % 4699 74.7 %
Single Thread Score 2516.5 0 % 2249.6 10.6 %
Encrypting Data 11279.5 MB/s 0 % 2028 MB/s 82 %
Compressing Data 471.7 MB/s 0 % 108.1 MB/s 77.1 %
String objects sorting 59520.7 thousand/s 0 % 14879.2 thousand/s 75 %
Prime numbers generation 104.9 millions/s 0 % 32.3 millions/s 69.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 108339 millions/s 0 % 25892.5 millions/s 76.1 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 66631.8 millions/s 0 % 13085.6 millions/s 80.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-7960X, Core i7-4790.

Average frames per second Core i9-7960X Core i7-4790
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 149.8 FPS 93.0 FPS
High settings 239.7 FPS 148.8 FPS
Medium settings 299.6 FPS 186.0 FPS
Low settings 374.5 FPS 232.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 37.9 %

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 i7-4790
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 166.4 FPS 132.7 FPS
High settings 266.3 FPS 212.3 FPS
Medium settings 332.9 FPS 265.4 FPS
Low settings 416.1 FPS 331.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 20.3 %
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