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General information Core i9-9940X Core i7-8086K
Launched Q4 2018 Q2 2018
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 3.3 GHz 17.5 % 4 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.5 GHz 10 % 5 GHz 0 %
Cores 14 0 % 6 57.1 %
Threads 28 0 % 12 57.1 %
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 14 × 32 kB Instruction
14 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 14 × 1 MB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 19.25 MB
1 × 12 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-9940X Core i7-8086K
Overall Score 65422 0 % 55289 15.5 %
Future Proof 68 % 0 % 65 % 4.4 %
Benchmark Score 18319 0 % 9344 49 %
Single Thread Score 2639.9 7.9 % 2865.4 0 %
Encrypting Data 10636.6 MB/s 0 % 5044 MB/s 52.6 %
Compressing Data 458.1 MB/s 0 % 205.8 MB/s 55.1 %
String objects sorting 58864 thousand/s 0 % 26969.2 thousand/s 54.2 %
Prime numbers generation 97.2 millions/s 0 % 42.3 millions/s 56.5 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 104378 millions/s 0 % 47710.4 millions/s 54.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 65489.9 millions/s 0 % 30003.5 millions/s 54.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-9940X, Core i7-8086K.

Average frames per second Core i9-9940X Core i7-8086K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 148.5 FPS 118.5 FPS
High settings 237.5 FPS 189.6 FPS
Medium settings 296.9 FPS 236.9 FPS
Low settings 371.2 FPS 296.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 20.2 %

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 i9-9940X Core i7-8086K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 165.6 FPS 147.7 FPS
High settings 265.0 FPS 236.3 FPS
Medium settings 331.3 FPS 295.4 FPS
Low settings 414.1 FPS 369.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 10.8 %
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