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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: 293
Last Price Change: $999.95 USD (2024-05-21)
| Integer Math | 116,514 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 72,040 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 111 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 64,667 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 11,716 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 529,658 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 1,506 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 39,715 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 2,480 MOps/Sec |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 59,306 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 41,385 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 39,180 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 34,630 | |
| Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz | 30,162 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,031 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 21,906 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 18,311 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 17,763 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,490 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,181 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 219.33 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 156.48 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 149.44 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 140.95 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 128.72 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 84.67 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 53.39 | |
| 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 | 4,170 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 4,034 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,923 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,837 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,700 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 3,471 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 3,361 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 2,932 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 2,568 | |
| Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz | 2,480 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL2104537 - May 19 2024 | 34505 | |
| BL2103683 - May 18 2024 | 23538 | |
| BL2102709 - May 16 2024 [Overclocked] | 38087 | |
| BL2101870 - May 15 2024 | 30187 | |
| BL2101826 - May 15 2024 | 29954 |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-14900KS | 9,547 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 9,270 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 9,061 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900KS | 8,554 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 8,399 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 8,146 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900KF | 8,001 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D | 7,882 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 7,793 | |
| Intel Core i7-14700K | 7,534 | |
| Intel Core i7-13790F | 7,532 | |
| Intel Core i7-14700KF | 7,528 | |
| Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz | 2,254 |
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