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General information Core i9-9980XE Core i7-8700K
Launched Q4 2018 Q4 2017
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Skylake-X Coffee Lake
Clock 3 GHz 18.9 % 3.7 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.5 GHz 4.3 % 4.7 GHz 0 %
Cores 18 0 % 6 66.7 %
Threads 36 0 % 12 66.7 %
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 × 24.75 MB
1 × 12 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-9980XE Core i7-8700K
Overall Score 67473 0 % 54504 19.2 %
Future Proof 68 % 0 % 62 % 8.8 %
Benchmark Score 20726 0 % 8825 57.4 %
Single Thread Score 2557.9 5.4 % 2704.7 0 %
Encrypting Data 12065.4 MB/s 0 % 4825.6 MB/s 60 %
Compressing Data 546.6 MB/s 0 % 196.9 MB/s 64 %
String objects sorting 69760.2 thousand/s 0 % 25576.6 thousand/s 63.3 %
Prime numbers generation 116.4 millions/s 0 % 38.8 millions/s 66.6 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 126148 millions/s 0 % 45888.1 millions/s 63.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 78293.6 millions/s 0 % 28793.7 millions/s 63.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-9980XE, Core i7-8700K.

Average frames per second Core i9-9980XE Core i7-8700K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 155.1 FPS 116.6 FPS
High settings 248.2 FPS 186.5 FPS
Medium settings 310.2 FPS 233.1 FPS
Low settings 387.7 FPS 291.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 24.8 %

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 i9-9980XE Core i7-8700K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 169.4 FPS 146.5 FPS
High settings 271.0 FPS 234.4 FPS
Medium settings 338.7 FPS 293.1 FPS
Low settings 423.4 FPS 366.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.5 %
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