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Is the Intel Core i7-9800X @ 3.80GHz Good for Gaming?
This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. But this CPU contains 8 Cores and 16 Threads. Paired with a good videocard, is this CPU Good for Gaming? This CPU should be able to play most games. [More ...]
Description:
Class: Desktop
Socket: FCLGA2066
Clockspeed: 3.8 GHz
Turbo Speed: 4.5 GHz
Cores: 8 Threads: 16
Typical TDP: 165 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 8 x 32 KB
L1 Data Cache: 8 x 32 KB
L2 Cache: 8 x 1024 KB
L3 Cache: 17 MB
Other names: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9800X CPU @ 3.80GHz
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q4 2018
CPUmark/$Price: 80.84
Overall Rank:
1000th fastest in multithreading out of 5489 CPUs
1080th fastest in single threading out of 5489 CPUs
327th fastest in out of 1484 Desktop CPUs
Last Price Change: $224.30 USD (2025-12-12)
| Integer Math | 59,006 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 36,663 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 72 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 32,908 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 6,337 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 260,506 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 1,192 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 21,691 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 2,557 MOps/Sec |
| Merchant | Price | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 58,550 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 58,355 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 38,952 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,147 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 21,845 | |
| Intel Core i5-12400F | 19,546 | |
| Intel Core i7-9800X @ 3.80GHz | 18,133 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 18,108 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 17,684 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,651 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,144 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 282.22 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 163.67 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 159.58 | |
| Intel Core i5-12400F | 130.77 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 130.40 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 106.30 | |
| Intel Core i7-9800X @ 3.80GHz | 80.84 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 53.74 | |
| 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 i9-14900K | 4,696 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 4,601 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,889 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,833 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,678 | |
| Intel Core i5-12400F | 3,487 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 3,467 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 3,364 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 2,915 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 2,561 | |
| Intel Core i7-9800X @ 3.80GHz | 2,557 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL3115393 - Dec 07 2025 | 19356 | |
| BL3098268 - Dec 01 2025 | 17730 | |
| BL3061630 - Nov 17 2025 | 19848 | |
| BL3056782 - Nov 16 2025 | 19863 | |
| BL3018476 - Oct 31 2025 | 18074 |
| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-9800X @ 3.80GHz | 18,133 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 2700X vs Intel Core i7-9800X | 17,448 (-3.8%) | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 1800X vs Intel Core i7-9800X | 16,301 (-10.1%) | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs Intel Core i7-9800X | 15,623 (-13.8%) | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs Intel Core i7-9800X | 13,876 (-23.5%) | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G vs Intel Core i7-9800X | 16,056 (-11.5%) | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs Intel Core i7-9800X | 15,982 (-11.9%) | |
| Intel Core i7-9700K @ 3.60GHz vs Intel Core i7-9800X | 14,398 (-20.6%) | |
| Intel Core i7-9700KF @ 3.60GHz vs Intel Core i7-9800X | 14,254 (-21.4%) | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4700G vs Intel Core i7-9800X | 20,184 (+11.3%) | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i7-9800X | 19,695 (+8.6%) | |
| AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X vs Intel Core i7-9800X | 16,837 (-7.1%) | |
| Intel Core i7-10700F @ 2.90GHz vs Intel Core i7-9800X | 16,119 (-11.1%) |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D | 12,446 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D | 12,126 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D | 11,255 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 10,797 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D | 10,513 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285K | 10,447 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 10,270 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D | 10,267 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 9,778 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D | 9,680 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265K | 9,476 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285 | 9,413 | |
| Intel Core i7-9800X @ 3.80GHz | 2,432 |
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