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General information Core i9-9940X Core i7-920
Launched Q4 2018 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 LGA1366
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Skylake-X Bloomfield
Clock 3.3 GHz 0 % 2.7 GHz 18.2 %
Turbo Clock 4.5 GHz 0 % 2.9 GHz 35.6 %
Cores 14 0 % 4 71.4 %
Threads 28 0 % 8 71.4 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 130 W 21.2 %
Lithography 14 nm 68.9 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 14 × 32 kB Instruction
14 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 14 × 1 MB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 19.25 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-9940X Core i7-920
Overall Score 65263 0 % 36788 43.6 %
Future Proof 68 % 0 % 10 % 85.3 %
Benchmark Score 18141 0 % 1832 89.9 %
Single Thread Score 2647.8 0 % 1223.3 53.8 %
Encrypting Data 10668.5 MB/s 0 % 4186.7 MB/s 60.8 %
Compressing Data 453.6 MB/s 0 % 61 MB/s 86.6 %
String objects sorting 58805.1 thousand/s 0 % 8372.4 thousand/s 85.8 %
Prime numbers generation 97.4 millions/s 0 % 22 millions/s 77.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 105424 millions/s 0 % 15020 millions/s 85.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 65424.7 millions/s 0 % 6405.2 millions/s 90.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-9940X, Core i7-920.

Average frames per second Core i9-9940X Core i7-920
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 148.6 FPS 63.9 FPS
High settings 237.7 FPS 102.3 FPS
Medium settings 297.2 FPS 127.9 FPS
Low settings 371.5 FPS 159.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 57 %

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 i7-920
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 165.6 FPS 115.4 FPS
High settings 264.9 FPS 184.7 FPS
Medium settings 331.2 FPS 230.8 FPS
Low settings 414.0 FPS 288.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 30.3 %
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