Intel Core i7-920: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

Intel started Core i7-920 sales on November 2008 at a recommended price of $340. This is a Bloomfield architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 8 threads, and is based on 45 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2930 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA1366,PLGA1366 processor with a TDP of 130 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.

It provides poor benchmark performance at 1.84% of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

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General info

Core i7-920 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance ranking1860
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money1.22
Market segmentDesktop processor
SeriesCore i7 (Desktop)
Architecture codenameBloomfield (2008−2010)
Release dateNovember 2008 (15 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$340of 305 (Core i7-870)
Current price$90 (0.3x MSRP)of 17802 (Threadripper PRO 7995WX)
Value for money

Performance per price, higher is better.

Technical specs

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores4 (Quad-Core)
Threads8
Base clock speed2.66 GHzof 4.7 (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed2.93 GHzof 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS)
Bus support1333 MHz
L1 cache64 KB (per core)of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core)
L2 cache256 KB (per core)of 36864 (Apple M2 Max)
L3 cache8 MB (shared)of 768 (EPYC 7373X)
Chip lithography45 nmof 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size263 mm2
Maximum core temperature68 °Cof 110 (Atom x7-E3950)
Number of transistors731 millionof 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-
Unlocked multiplierNo

Compatibility

Information on Core i7-920 compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFCLGA1366,PLGA1366
Power consumption (TDP)130 Wattof 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Core i7-920. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2
AES-NI-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Turbo Boost Technology1.0
Hyper-Threading Technology+
Idle States+
Thermal Monitoring-
Demand Based Switching-
PAE36 Bit
StatusDiscontinued

Security technologies

Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+
EDB+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

VT-x+
EPT+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Core i7-920's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3of 5600 (Ryzen 9 7940HS)
Maximum memory size24 GBof 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3)
Max memory channels3of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sof 460.8 (EPYC 9124)
ECC memory support-

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Core i7-920. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

i7-920 2828

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

i7-920 415

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

i7-920 1434

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Benchmark coverage: 20%

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Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

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3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

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Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

i7-920 5

3DMark Fire Strike Physics

Benchmark coverage: 4%

i7-920 3970

Gaming performance

Relative perfomance

Overall Core i7-920 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop CPUs.


AMD A8-6500B 100.54
AMD A8-5600K 100.54
Intel Core i7-920 100
AMD A8-6500 98.91

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Core i7-920 is A8-5600K, which is faster by 1% and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.

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Here are some closest AMD rivals to Core i7-920:

AMD A8-5600K 100.54
AMD A8-6500B 100.54
Intel Core i7-920 100
AMD A8-6500 98.91
AMD A6-9400 95.65

Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Core i7-920, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Core i7-920 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 2842 configurations based on Core i7-920 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.4% (11/2842)
RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 7900 XTX
0.04% (1/2842)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.1% (4/2842)
RX 7900 XT Radeon RX 7900 XT
0.1% (3/2842)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.1% (4/2842)
RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 3090
0.1% (4/2842)
RX 7800 XT Radeon RX 7800 XT
0.07% (2/2842)
RTX 4060 Ti GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
0.07% (2/2842)
RTX 3070 GeForce RTX 3070
0.1% (4/2842)
RX 6800 Radeon RX 6800
0.04% (1/2842)

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