Intel Core i7 5960X specifications and performance

Intel Core i7 5960X is a 8 cores and 16 threads CPU processor produced by Intel. Intel Core i7 5960X was released on 2014-08-29, the fabrication process is 22nm (nanometer), the CPU codename is -, the instruction set architecture is x86-64, and the CPU's integrated graphics (iGPU) is -.

Basic Information

Vendor / Supplier Intel
Short name i7 5960x
Release date 2014-08-29
CPU code name
Fabrication process 22nm (nanometer)
Instruction set architecture x86-64
Market Desktop
Integrated Graphics (iGPU)

CPU core specifications

Total number of cores 8 cores
Total number of threads 16 threads
Number of performance cores 8 cores
Number of performance core threads 16 threads
Performance core base frequency / main frequency 3.0GHz
Performance core maximum turbo frequency 3.5GHz
Number of energy efficiency cores
Number of energy-efficient core threads
Energy efficiency core basic frequency / main frequency
Energy efficiency core maximum turbo frequency

CPU cache and frequency

Bus frequency 100MHz
L1 Cache 64 KB
L2 Cache 256 KB
L3 Cache 20 MB
Unlock multiplier No

Memory specifications

Maximum supported memory 64GB
Memory frequency support
  • - DDR4-2133MHz
Maximum number of memory channels 4
Maximum memory bandwidth 68GB/s
ECC support No

Package specifications

CPU Socket LGA-2011-3
Default thermal design power / TDP PL1 140W
Maximum Turbo Power Consumption / TDP PL2
Maximum temperature
PCIe interface PCIe 3.0
PCIe lane count 40

Integrated Graphics specifications

Integrated Graphics (iGPU) AMD Radeon 680M
Base frequency 2000MHz
Maximum acceleration frequency 2200MHz
Number of execution units 12
Stream Processors / Shading Units 768
Texture Units / TMUs 48
Raster Operations Units / ROPs 32
Total Graphics Power / TGP 15W
FP32 computing performance
3.686TFLOPS

Cinebench R23 performance test

Single core performance score
1085
Multi-core performance score
10030

PassMark performance test

Single core performance score
1983
Multi-core performance score
12754
Integer math 48 GOps/sec
Floating point math 24 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 62 Million Primes/sec (Millions find prime numbers per second)
Random string sorting 27.7 Million Strings/sec (Millions random string sorting per second)
Data encryption 3.7 GBytes/sec (Gigabits per second)
Data compression 196.8 MBytes/sec (megabits per second)
Physics simulation 1005 Frames/sec (FPS)
Extended instruction test 12.7 Billion Matrices/sec (Billions matrix operations per second)

GeekBench v6 performance test

Single core performance
1962
Multi-core performance
8607
File compression 880.4 MB/sec (megabits per second)
clang compilation 65.1 Klines/sec (thousands lines per second)
HTML5 browsing 183.5 pages/sec (pages per second)
PDF rendering 223.9 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second)
Text processing 208 pages/sec (pages per second)
Background blur 38.1 images/sec (images per second)
Photo processing 74.9 images/sec (images per second)
Ray tracing 15 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second)