Intel Core i9 7960X specifications and performance
Intel Core i9 7960X is a 16 cores and 32 threads CPU processor produced by Intel. Intel Core i9 7960X was released on 2017-09-25, 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 -.
| Vendor / Supplier | Intel |
|---|---|
| Short name | i9 7960x |
| Release date | 2017-09-25 |
| CPU code name | Skylake |
| Fabrication process | 14nm (nanometer) |
| Instruction set architecture | x86-64 |
| Market | Desktop |
| Integrated Graphics (iGPU) |
| Total number of cores | 16 cores |
|---|---|
| Total number of threads | 32 threads |
| Number of performance cores | 16 cores |
| Number of performance core threads | 32 threads |
| Performance core base frequency / main frequency | 2.8GHz |
| Performance core maximum turbo frequency | 4.2GHz |
| Number of energy efficiency cores | |
| Number of energy-efficient core threads | |
| Energy efficiency core basic frequency / main frequency | |
| Energy efficiency core maximum turbo frequency |
| Bus frequency | 100MHz |
|---|---|
| L1 Cache | 64 KB |
| L2 Cache | 1 MB |
| L3 Cache | 22 MB |
| Unlock multiplier | Yes |
| Maximum supported memory | 128GB |
|---|---|
| Memory frequency support |
|
| Maximum number of memory channels | 4 |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 79.47GB/s |
| ECC support | No |
| CPU Socket | LGA-2066 |
|---|---|
| Default thermal design power / TDP PL1 | 165W |
| Maximum Turbo Power Consumption / TDP PL2 | |
| Maximum temperature | 98°C |
| PCIe interface | PCIe 3.0 |
| PCIe lane count | 44 |
| Integrated Graphics (iGPU) | Intel UHD Graphics 750 |
|---|---|
| Base frequency | 300MHz |
| Maximum acceleration frequency | 1300MHz |
| Number of execution units | 32 |
| Stream Processors / Shading Units | 256 |
| Texture Units / TMUs | 64 |
| Raster Operations Units / ROPs | 32 |
| Total Graphics Power / TGP | 15W |
| FP32 computing performance |
0.46TFLOPS
|
| Single core performance score |
1113
|
|---|---|
| Multi-core performance score |
15288
|
| Single core performance score |
2503
|
|---|---|
| Multi-core performance score |
28779
|
| Integer math | 108 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 68 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 104 Million Primes/sec (Millions find prime numbers per second) |
| Random string sorting | 59.7 Million Strings/sec (Millions random string sorting per second) |
| Data encryption | 11.1 GBytes/sec (Gigabits per second) |
| Data compression | 479.4 MBytes/sec (megabits per second) |
| Physics simulation | 1483 Frames/sec (FPS) |
| Extended instruction test | 38.1 Billion Matrices/sec (Billions matrix operations per second) |
| Single core performance |
2576
|
|---|---|
| Multi-core performance |
11904
|
| File compression | 981.4 MB/sec (megabits per second) |
| clang compilation | 89.7 Klines/sec (thousands lines per second) |
| HTML5 browsing | 245.8 pages/sec (pages per second) |
| PDF rendering | 369.5 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second) |
| Text processing | 244.6 pages/sec (pages per second) |
| Background blur | 53.7 images/sec (images per second) |
| Photo processing | 99.1 images/sec (images per second) |
| Ray tracing | 21.2 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second) |