Socket 2066 (Core i9-7960X) Processor with 16 cores surfaces in GeekBench

Published 2017-07-24 14:29 by Hilbert Hagedoorn

In the GeekBench ranking list a new 16-core processor with 32-threads has surfaced. The unit is tagged as Socket 2066 and thus is the recently announced (yet not available) Core i9-7960X. The results reveal a few interesting things.

The $1699 Core i9-7960X Skylake-E processor is identified as having 16 cores and 32 threads. The base clock frequency is 2.51 GHz, indicative for an engineering sample and perhaps with this many cores, it might even be the final base-clock. The chip has 1MB L2-cache per core and 22 MB of shared L3 cache in-between the cores as you can see in the screenshot.

The twp scores are as follows:

Single score results: 5238 points
Multi-threaded score: 33672 points

So when you compare a little back and forth with the ranking lists then that single threaded score brings the processor at the level of a i5-7600 perf wise, and the multi-threaded score actually brings it close to the 10-core Core i9 7900X. That processor obviously has a base clock of 3.3 GHz. With a little Turbo tweaking we do expect the final performance to be better though.


	Clock	Turbo 2.0/3.0	Cores / threads	L3-cache	PCIe 3.0	Mem Channels	TDP	Price
Core i9 7980XE	TBA	TBA	18/36	TBA	TBA	Quad-channel DDR4-2666	TBA	$1999
Core i9 7960X	2.5 GHz	TBA	16/32	22MB	TBA	Quad-channel DDR4-2666	TBA	$1699
Core i9 7940X	TBA	TBA	14/28	TBA	TBA	Quad-channel DDR4-2666	TBA	$1399
Core i9 7920X	TBA.	TBA	12/24	TBA	TBA	Quad-channel DDR4-2666	TBA	$1199
Core i9 7900X	3.3 GHz	4.3/4.5 GHz	10/20	13,75 MB	44	Quad-channel DDR4-2666	140 W	$999
Core i7 7820X	3.6 GHz	4.3/4.5 GHz	8/16	11 MB	28	Quad-channel DDR4-2666	140 W	$599
Core i7 7800X	3.5 GHz	4.0 GHz	6/12	8,25 MB	28	Quad-channel DDR4-2666	140 W	$389
Core i7 7740X	4.3 GHz	4.5 GHz	4/8	8 MB	16	Dual-channel DDR4-2666	112 W	$339
Core i5 7640X	4.0 GHz	4.2 GHz	4/4	6 MB	16	Dual-channel DDR4-2666	112 W	$242

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