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General information Core i9-9900K Core i7-960
Launched Q4 2018 Q4 2009
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA1151-2 LGA1366
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Coffee Lake Refresh Bloomfield
Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 11.1 %
Turbo Clock 5 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 30 %
Cores 8 0 % 4 50 %
Threads 16 0 % 8 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 W 26.9 % 130 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 68.9 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 16 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-9900K Core i7-960
Overall Score 58663 0 % 38314 34.7 %
Future Proof 68 % 0 % 15 % 77.9 %
Benchmark Score 11843 0 % 2155 81.8 %
Single Thread Score 2920.3 0 % 1463.8 49.9 %
Encrypting Data 6617.9 MB/s 0 % 4891.1 MB/s 26.1 %
Compressing Data 276.3 MB/s 0 % 71.5 MB/s 74.1 %
String objects sorting 36255.8 thousand/s 0 % 9932.6 thousand/s 72.6 %
Prime numbers generation 46.6 millions/s 0 % 22.8 millions/s 51 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 66744.3 millions/s 0 % 18038 millions/s 73 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 41300.5 millions/s 0 % 7761.6 millions/s 81.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-9900K, Core i7-960.

Average frames per second Core i9-9900K Core i7-960
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 129.0 FPS 68.5 FPS
High settings 206.4 FPS 109.7 FPS
Medium settings 258.0 FPS 137.1 FPS
Low settings 322.5 FPS 171.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 46.9 %

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 i9-9900K Core i7-960
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 154.1 FPS 118.1 FPS
High settings 246.6 FPS 188.9 FPS
Medium settings 308.2 FPS 236.2 FPS
Low settings 385.2 FPS 295.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 23.4 %
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