Intel Core i5-9600 vs Intel Core i7-3960X

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Price

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$ 288.36
$ 250.00
$ 38.36 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3841 points
4% slightly better overall score
3693 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6445 points
28% slightly better gaming score
4998 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3064 points
3261 points
6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2938 points
3155 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

86.07 points
23% slightly higher Blender score
69.62 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5432 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3363 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1487 points
123% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
665 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5073 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3209 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1541 points
133% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
661 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
3.3 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed
3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
100% significantly lower TDP
130 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
40
150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

463rd of 1,110
477th of 1,110

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i5
Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May
2011 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

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