Product Compare

Intel Core i7 9700F vs Intel Core i7 5960X

CPU CPU
General Parameters
Release Date Apr 2019 Aug 2014
Manufacturer Intel Intel
Type Desktop Desktop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Core Architecture Coffee Lake Haswell E
Processor Number i7-9700F i7-5960X
Integrated Graphics N/A N/A
Package
Manufacturing Process 14 nm 22 nm
Socket LGA-1151 LGA-2011-3
Power Consumption 65 W 140 W
Peak Operating Temperature 100 °C
Transistor Count 2.6 billions
CPU Performance
Performance Cores 8 8
Performance Core Threads 8 16
Performance Core Base Frequency 3.0 GHz 3.0 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency 4.7 GHz 3.5 GHz
Total Core Count 8 8
Total Thread Count 8 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 30x 30x
L1 Cache 64 K per core 64 K per core
L2 Cache 256 K per core 256 K per core
L3 Cache 12 MB shared 20 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier No No
Memory Parameters
Memory Types DDR4-2666 DDR4-2133
Max Memory Size 128 GB 64 GB
Max Memory Channels 2 4
Max Memory Bandwidth 41.6 GB/s 68 GB/s
ECC Memory Support No No
Miscellaneous
Official Website Official Link ↗ Official Link ↗
PCIe Version 3.0 3.0
PCIe Lanes 16 40
Extended Instruction Set SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2 SSE4.2, AVX-2
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core 1162 1057
Cinebench R23 Multi Core 8461 9850
Geekbench 6 Single Core 1557 1244
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 6479 6669
Passmark CPU Single Core 2768 1963
Passmark CPU Multi Core 13384 12655