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General information Core i9-9940X Core i9-10900K
Launched Q4 2018 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 3.3 GHz 10.8 % 3.7 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.5 GHz 15.1 % 5.3 GHz 0 %
Cores 14 0 % 10 28.6 %
Threads 28 0 % 20 28.6 %
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 14 × 32 kB Instruction
14 × 32 kB Data
10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 14 × 1 MB
10 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 19.25 MB
1 × 20 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-9940X Core i9-10900K
Overall Score 65009 0 % 61823 4.9 %
Future Proof 68 % 10.5 % 76 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 17861 0 % 14608 18.2 %
Single Thread Score 2618.8 15.7 % 3107.8 0 %
Encrypting Data 10636.6 MB/s 0 % 8258.4 MB/s 22.4 %
Compressing Data 459 MB/s 0 % 372.6 MB/s 18.8 %
String objects sorting 58275.4 thousand/s 0 % 46879.9 thousand/s 19.6 %
Prime numbers generation 96.5 millions/s 0 % 63.4 millions/s 34.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 105110 millions/s 0 % 86672.5 millions/s 17.5 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 65489.9 millions/s 0 % 53836.8 millions/s 17.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-9940X, Core i9-10900K.

Average frames per second Core i9-9940X Core i9-10900K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 148.5 FPS 139.0 FPS
High settings 237.6 FPS 222.4 FPS
Medium settings 297.0 FPS 278.0 FPS
Low settings 371.2 FPS 347.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 6.4 %

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 i9-10900K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 166.5 FPS 160.8 FPS
High settings 266.4 FPS 257.2 FPS
Medium settings 333.0 FPS 321.5 FPS
Low settings 416.3 FPS 401.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 3.5 %
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