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Intel Xeon 6980E+ vs Intel Core i7 9800X

CPU CPU
General Parameters
Release Date May 2026 Oct 2018
Manufacturer Intel Intel
Type Server Desktop
Core Architecture Clearwater Forest Skylake
Integrated Graphics N/A N/A
Generation Xeon 6+ (Clearwater Forest-SP)
Instruction Set x86-64
Processor Number i7-9800X
Package
Manufacturing Process 3 nm 14 nm
Socket Intel Socket 7529 LGA-2066
Power Consumption 400 W 165 W
Peak Operating Temperature 99°C 95 °C
Foundry Intel
I/O Process Size 10 nm
I/O Die Size 2x 241
Package FC-LGA18N
CPU Performance
Performance Core Base Frequency 2.1 GHz 3.8 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency 3.2 GHz 4.4 GHz
Total Core Count 264 8
Total Thread Count 264 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 21.0 38x
L1 Cache 96 KB per core 64 K per core
L2 Cache 4 MB per module 1 MB per core
L3 Cache 528 MB shared 17 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier No Yes
SMP 2
Performance Cores 8
Performance Core Threads 16
Memory Parameters
Memory Types DDR5-8000 DDR4-2666
Max Memory Size 1.5 TB 128 GB
Max Memory Channels 12 4
Max Memory Bandwidth 768.0 GB/s 79.47 GB/s
ECC Memory Support Yes No
Miscellaneous
PCIe Version 5 3.0
PCIe Lanes 96 44
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Extended Instruction Set SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2, AVX-512