Over 1,000,000 CPUs Benchmarked
Benchmarks for the Intel Core i9-7980XE can be found below. Release dates, price and performance comparisons are also listed when available. This is made using thousands of PerformanceTest benchmark results and is updated daily.
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: 30.97
Overall Rank:
299th fastest in multithreading out of 4770 CPUs
814th fastest in single threading out of 4770 CPUs
97th fastest in out of 1369 Desktop CPUs
Last Price Change: $972.75 USD (2024-07-25)
| Integer Math | 116,485 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 72,020 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 110 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 64,570 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 11,676 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 528,952 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 1,502 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 39,733 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 2,478 MOps/Sec |
| Merchant | Price | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
 | $899.95 USD | Buy Now! |
 | NA | CPU Not Available. See Other Models |
 | NA | CPU Not Available. See Other Models |
| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 59,235 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 41,481 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 39,150 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 34,619 | |
| Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz | 30,127 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,050 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 21,894 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 18,284 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 17,754 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,535 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,172 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 221.95 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 168.43 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 146.82 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 138.27 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 134.63 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 84.64 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 55.41 | |
| Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz | 30.97 | |
| 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 | 4,629 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 4,166 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 4,032 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,919 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,837 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,695 | |
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| BL2147058 - Jul 17 2024 | 29536 | |
| BL2146194 - Jul 16 2024 [Overclocked] | 37221 | |
| BL5067515 - Jun 28 2024 [Excluded] | 17946 | |
| BL2132982 - Jun 27 2024 [Overclocked] | 36578 | |
| BL2132813 - Jun 27 2024 | 26141 |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-14900KS | 9,316 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 9,272 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 9,028 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900KS | 8,528 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 8,385 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 8,104 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900KF | 8,009 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D | 7,877 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 7,787 | |
| Intel Core i7-13790F | 7,746 | |
| Intel Core i7-14700K | 7,542 | |
| Intel Core i7-14700KF | 7,533 | |
| Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz | 2,251 |
High End
Best Value
New Desktop
Single Thread
CPU Mega List
Compare
Common
AMD vs Intel