Comparison of Intel Core i7-5960X and Intel Core i9-7920X

Attribute	Intel Core i9-7920X ×	Intel Core i7-5960X ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	Intel
Series	Intel Core i9	Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition
Model	Intel Core i9-7920X	Intel Core i7-5960X
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	12	8
Frequency (GHz)	2.9	3
CPU Threads	24	16
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	+	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4.3	3.5
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	-	3.2
Turbo (12 Cores) (GHz)	3.7	-
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR4-2666	DDR4-2133
PCIe lanes	44	40
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	4	4
Technical details
Release date (year)	2017	2014
Technology (Nm)	14	22
Socket	LGA 2066	LGA 2011-3
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	16	20
Architecture	Skylake-X	Haswell-E
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	165	140
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	23,290	15,991
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,126	1,002
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	11,498	7,843
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	188	177
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	2,438	1,360
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	2.19	1.89
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	26.73	13.18
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	4,876	3,773
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	45,772	28,928
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)	120.9	254.1