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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: 30.16
Overall Rank: 295
Last Price Change: $999.95 USD (2024-05-21)
| Integer Math | 116,600 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 72,093 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 110 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 64,673 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 11,690 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 529,817 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 1,503 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 39,783 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 2,481 MOps/Sec |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 59,297 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 41,398 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 39,173 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 34,626 | |
| Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz | 30,154 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,030 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 21,904 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 18,305 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 17,762 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,501 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,179 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 208.98 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 158.90 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 157.32 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 140.81 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 128.59 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 84.66 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 53.37 | |
| Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz | 30.16 | |
| 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 | 4,632 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 4,167 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 4,034 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,922 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,837 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,699 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 3,471 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 3,361 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 2,931 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 2,568 | |
| Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz | 2,481 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL2120250 - Jun 10 2024 | 33494 | |
| BL2119958 - Jun 09 2024 [Overclocked] | 36600 | |
| BL2119267 - Jun 08 2024 [Overclocked] | 36428 | |
| BL2118703 - Jun 07 2024 [Overclocked] | 37827 | |
| BL2114259 - Jun 01 2024 | 25466 |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-14900KS | 9,442 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 9,272 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 9,050 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900KS | 8,552 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 8,395 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 8,134 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900KF | 8,013 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D | 7,884 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 7,793 | |
| Intel Core i7-14700K | 7,540 | |
| Intel Core i7-13790F | 7,532 | |
| Intel Core i7-14700KF | 7,521 | |
| Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz | 2,252 |
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