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 -.

Basic Information

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)

CPU core specifications

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

CPU cache and frequency

Bus frequency 100MHz
L1 Cache 64 KB
L2 Cache 1 MB
L3 Cache 22 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 98°C
PCIe interface PCIe 3.0
PCIe lane count 44

Integrated Graphics specifications

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

Cinebench R23 performance test

Single core performance score
1113
Multi-core performance score
15288

PassMark performance test

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)

GeekBench v6 performance test

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)