Intel Core i7 9800X specifications and performance

Intel Core i7 9800X is a 8 cores and 16 threads CPU processor produced by Intel. Intel Core i7 9800X was released on 2018-10-08, the fabrication process is 14nm (nanometer), the CPU codename is Skylake, the instruction set architecture is x86-64, and the CPU's integrated graphics (iGPU) is -.

Basic Information

Vendor / Supplier Intel
Short name i7 9800x
Release date 2018-10-08
CPU code name Skylake
Fabrication process 14nm (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 3.8GHz
Performance core maximum turbo frequency 4.4GHz
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 1 MB
L3 Cache 17 MB
Unlock multiplier Yes

Memory specifications

Maximum supported memory 128GB
Memory frequency support
  • - DDR4-2666MHz
Maximum number of memory channels 4
Maximum memory bandwidth 79.47GB/s
ECC support No

Package specifications

CPU Socket LGA-2066
Default thermal design power / TDP PL1 165W
Maximum Turbo Power Consumption / TDP PL2
Maximum temperature 95°C
PCIe interface PCIe 3.0
PCIe lane count 44

Integrated Graphics specifications

Integrated Graphics (iGPU) Intel Iris Xe Graphics (96EU)
Base frequency 300MHz
Maximum acceleration frequency 1500MHz
Number of execution units 96
Stream Processors / Shading Units 768
Texture Units / TMUs 48
Raster Operations Units / ROPs 24
Total Graphics Power / TGP 15W
FP32 computing performance
1.69TFLOPS

Cinebench R23 performance test

Single core performance score
1279
Multi-core performance score
13137

PassMark performance test

Single core performance score
2578
Multi-core performance score
18116
Integer math 59 GOps/sec
Floating point math 37 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 71 Million Primes/sec (Millions find prime numbers per second)
Random string sorting 33.5 Million Strings/sec (Millions random string sorting per second)
Data encryption 6.3 GBytes/sec (Gigabits per second)
Data compression 260.5 MBytes/sec (megabits per second)
Physics simulation 1176 Frames/sec (FPS)
Extended instruction test 21.6 Billion Matrices/sec (Billions matrix operations per second)

GeekBench v6 performance test

Single core performance
2197
Multi-core performance
10263
File compression 723.3 MB/sec (megabits per second)
clang compilation 59.6 Klines/sec (thousands lines per second)
HTML5 browsing 232.7 pages/sec (pages per second)
PDF rendering 360 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second)
Text processing 222.7 pages/sec (pages per second)
Background blur 30.5 images/sec (images per second)
Photo processing 85.4 images/sec (images per second)
Ray tracing 20.9 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second)