Intel Core i9-7900X vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Core i9-7900X vs Core i7 X 990 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-7900X performs better than the Core i7 X 990. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 X 990 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-7900X has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7 X 990 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7 X 990. Our comparison shows that the Core i7 X 990 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-7900X.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.