Intel Core i9 9960X specifications and performance
Intel Core i9 9960X is a 16 cores and 32 threads CPU processor produced by Intel. Intel Core i9 9960X 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 -.
| Vendor / Supplier | Intel |
|---|---|
| Short name | i9 9960x |
| Release date | 2018-10-08 |
| 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 | 3.1GHz |
| 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 |
| Bus frequency | |
|---|---|
| L1 Cache | 32 KB |
| L2 Cache | 1 MB |
| L3 Cache | 22 MB |
| Unlock multiplier | Yes |
| Maximum supported memory | 128GB |
|---|---|
| Memory frequency support |
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| Maximum number of memory channels | 4 |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | |
| ECC support | No |
| CPU Socket | LGA-2066 |
|---|---|
| Default thermal design power / TDP PL1 | 165W |
| Maximum Turbo Power Consumption / TDP PL2 | |
| Maximum temperature | 85°C |
| PCIe interface | PCIe 3.0 |
| PCIe lane count | 44 |
| Integrated Graphics (iGPU) | Intel UHD Graphics (16EU) |
|---|---|
| Base frequency | 350MHz |
| Maximum acceleration frequency | 1500MHz |
| Number of execution units | 16 |
| Stream Processors / Shading Units | 128 |
| Texture Units / TMUs | 16 |
| Raster Operations Units / ROPs | 8 |
| Total Graphics Power / TGP | 15W |
| FP32 computing performance |
0.382TFLOPS
|
| Single core performance score |
1084
|
|---|---|
| Multi-core performance score |
18117
|
| Single core performance score |
2621
|
|---|---|
| Multi-core performance score |
30578
|
| Integer math | 118 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 73 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 113 Million Primes/sec (Millions find prime numbers per second) |
| Random string sorting | 65.2 Million Strings/sec (Millions random string sorting per second) |
| Data encryption | 11.4 GBytes/sec (Gigabits per second) |
| Data compression | 514.8 MBytes/sec (megabits per second) |
| Physics simulation | 1546 Frames/sec (FPS) |
| Extended instruction test | 40.1 Billion Matrices/sec (Billions matrix operations per second) |
| Single core performance |
2348
|
|---|---|
| Multi-core performance |
12107
|
| File compression | 841.6 MB/sec (megabits per second) |
| clang compilation | 107.3 Klines/sec (thousands lines per second) |
| HTML5 browsing | 268.5 pages/sec (pages per second) |
| PDF rendering | 365.5 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second) |
| Text processing | 244.1 pages/sec (pages per second) |
| Background blur | 53.1 images/sec (images per second) |
| Photo processing | 99.5 images/sec (images per second) |
| Ray tracing | 24.5 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second) |