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Is the Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz Good for Gaming?
This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. But this CPU contains 18 Cores and 36 Threads. Paired with a good videocard, is this CPU Good for Gaming? This CPU should be able to play most games, but may be a bottleneck on newer releases. [More ...]
Description:
Class: Desktop
Socket: FCLGA2066
Clockspeed: 2.6 GHz
Turbo Speed: 4.2 GHz
Cores: 18 Threads: 36
Typical TDP: 165 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 18 x 32 KB
L1 Data Cache: 18 x 32 KB
L2 Cache: 18 x 1024 KB
L3 Cache: 25 MB
Other names: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-7980XE CPU @ 2.60GHz, Intel Core i9-7980XE CPU @ 2.60GHz
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q3 2017
CPUmark/$Price: 33.48
Overall Rank:
298th fastest in multithreading out of 4757 CPUs
810th fastest in single threading out of 4757 CPUs
96th fastest in out of 1368 Desktop CPUs
Last Price Change: $899.95 USD (2024-07-06)
| Integer Math | 116,518 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 72,042 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 110 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 64,602 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 11,679 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 529,159 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 1,502 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 39,742 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 2,478 MOps/Sec |
| Merchant | Price | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 59,260 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 41,472 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 39,156 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 34,622 | |
| Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz | 30,130 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,043 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 21,898 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 18,287 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 17,755 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,537 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,177 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 236.83 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 168.46 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 167.33 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 150.53 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 134.68 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 84.65 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 55.42 | |
| Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz | 33.48 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | NA |
| Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 4,630 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 4,166 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 4,033 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,921 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,837 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,697 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 3,470 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 3,360 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 2,930 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 2,567 | |
| Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz | 2,478 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL5067515 - Jun 28 2024 [Excluded] | 17946 | |
| BL2132982 - Jun 27 2024 [Overclocked] | 36578 | |
| BL2132813 - Jun 27 2024 | 26141 | |
| BL2126568 - Jun 18 2024 [Overclocked] | 37864 | |
| BL2126534 - Jun 18 2024 [Overclocked] | 37798 |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-14900KS | 9,335 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 9,273 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 9,030 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900KS | 8,525 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 8,388 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 8,112 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900KF | 8,009 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D | 7,884 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 7,790 | |
| Intel Core i7-13790F | 7,746 | |
| Intel Core i7-14700K | 7,536 | |
| Intel Core i7-14700KF | 7,536 | |
| Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz | 2,251 |
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