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Intel Core i9-9820X: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

Intel started Intel Core i9-9820X sales 19 October 2018 at a recommended price of $898. This is Skylake-X architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at home systems. It has 10 cores and 20 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4200 MHz and an unlocked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA2066 processor with a TDP of 165 Watt and a maximum temperature of 72 °C. It supports DDR4-2666 memory.

It provides good benchmark performance at 26.34 percent of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X.

General info

Of Core i9-9820X processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture and sales start time and price.

Place in performance rating

Value for money (0-100)

14.26

Type

Desktop

Series

Intel Core i9

Architecture codename

Skylake-X

Release date

19 October 2018

Launch price (MSRP)

$898

Price now

$775

of 8685 (Xeon E5-4650L)

Technical specs

Core i9-9820X's quantitative parameters such as cores and threads number, clocks, manufacturing process, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of Core i9-9820X's performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Number of cores

Number of threads

Base frequency

3.3 GHz

of 4.7 (FX-9590)

Maximum frequency

4.2 GHz

of 5.3 (Core i9-10900K)

Bus support

4 × 8 GT/s

L1 cache

64K (per core)

of 896 (Atom C3950)

L2 cache

1 MB (per core)

of 8 (FX-8350)

L3 cache

16.5 MB (shared)

of 32 (Ryzen Threadripper 1998)

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

of 7 (Ryzen 3 3300)

Maximum core temperature

92 °C

of 110 (Atom x7-E3950)

Maximum case temperature (TCase)

72 °C

of 105 (Core i7-5557U)

64 bit support

Unlocked

Compatibility

Information on Core i9-9820X compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one.

Max number of CPUs in a configuration

of 8 (Opteron 842)

Socket

FCLGA2066

Power consumption (TDP)

165 Watt

of 650 (Atom Z500)

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core i9-9820X. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions

Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512

AES-NI

AVX

Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)

Turbo Boost

2.0

Hyper-Threading

Turbo Boost Max 3.0

Security technologies

Core i9-9820X technologies aimed at raising security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

EDB

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core i9-9820X are enumerated here.

VT-d

VT-x

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Core i9-9820X.

Supported memory types

DDR4-2666

of 4266 (Ryzen 9 4900H)

Maximum memory size

128 GB

of 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3)

Max memory channels

of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

Maximum memory bandwidth

79.47 GB/s

of 262.26 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

Graphics specifications

General parameters of GPU integrated into Core i9-9820X.

Integrated graphics

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of Core i9-9820X's supported peripherals.

PCIe revision

3.0

Max number of PCIe lanes

of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Core i9-9820X. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

26.34

Passmark

21412

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good Core i9-9820X is for gaming compared with game system requirements. Remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Overall Core i9-9820X performance compared to nearest competitors. All CPU types participate.

103.11 %

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950

100 %

Intel Core i9-9820X

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Core i9-9820X from AMD is Ryzen Threadripper 1950, which is faster by 3% and higher by 4 positions in our rating.