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General information Core i9-10900K Core i7-940
Launched Q2 2020 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA1200 LGA1366
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Comet Lake Bloomfield
Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 2.9 GHz 21.6 %
Turbo Clock 5.3 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 39.6 %
Cores 10 0 % 4 60 %
Threads 20 0 % 8 60 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 W 3.8 % 130 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 68.9 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 10 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-10900K Core i7-940
Overall Score 62053 0 % 37153 40.1 %
Future Proof 76 % 0 % 10 % 86.8 %
Benchmark Score 14827 0 % 1905 87.2 %
Single Thread Score 3107.8 0 % 1319.2 57.6 %
Encrypting Data 8206.4 MB/s 0 % 4394.3 MB/s 46.5 %
Compressing Data 367.4 MB/s 0 % 63 MB/s 82.9 %
String objects sorting 47235 thousand/s 0 % 8828.3 thousand/s 81.3 %
Prime numbers generation 63.6 millions/s 0 % 21.8 millions/s 65.8 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 86329.2 millions/s 0 % 16252 millions/s 81.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 53834.8 millions/s 0 % 6950.5 millions/s 87.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-10900K, Core i7-940.

Average frames per second Core i9-10900K Core i7-940
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 139.0 FPS 65.0 FPS
High settings 222.4 FPS 104.1 FPS
Medium settings 278.0 FPS 130.1 FPS
Low settings 347.5 FPS 162.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 53.2 %

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 i9-10900K Core i7-940
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 159.8 FPS 116.0 FPS
High settings 255.7 FPS 185.7 FPS
Medium settings 319.6 FPS 232.1 FPS
Low settings 399.5 FPS 290.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 27.4 %
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