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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. [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: 37.45
Overall Rank:
366th fastest in multithreading out of 5003 CPUs
958th fastest in single threading out of 5003 CPUs
119th fastest in out of 1414 Desktop CPUs
Last Price Change: $799.00 USD (2025-01-08)
| Integer Math | 116,026 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 71,624 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 111 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 63,752 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 11,520 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 520,140 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 1,510 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 39,377 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 2,458 MOps/Sec |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 58,851 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 41,375 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 39,063 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 34,549 | |
| Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz | 29,924 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,115 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 21,877 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 18,205 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 17,722 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,622 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,147 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 218.79 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 196.93 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 149.67 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 139.78 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 120.11 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 84.47 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 49.34 | |
| Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz | 37.45 | |
| 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 | 4,615 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 4,149 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 4,023 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,902 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,836 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,682 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 3,470 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 3,363 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 2,923 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 2,564 | |
| Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz | 2,458 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL2437417 - Feb 24 2025 | 29828 | |
| BL2432071 - Feb 21 2025 | 24246 | |
| BL2432005 - Feb 21 2025 | 23673 | |
| BL2431974 - Feb 21 2025 | 29035 | |
| BL2425324 - Feb 19 2025 | 34313 |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D | 12,192 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 10,869 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D | 10,595 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285K | 10,573 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 10,301 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 9,840 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 5 245K | 9,565 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265K | 9,540 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF | 9,366 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 5 245KF | 9,183 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285 | 9,127 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 5 235 | 9,021 | |
| Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz | 2,025 |
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