Intel Core i7 990X vs. Core i9 9900K Linux Benchmarks Intel Core i7 990X vs Core i9 9900K Linux benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article. Core i7 990X: Processor: Intel Core i7 990X @ 3.47GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0 (V3.8 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 860, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 560 4GB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 4.18.0-10-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Core i9 9900K: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0506 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 860, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 560 4GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 4.18.0-10-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 ET: Legacy 2.75 Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 116 |========================== Core i9 9900K . 260 |========================================================== ET: Legacy 2.75 Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 0.92 |=================== Core i9 9900K . 2.79 |========================================================= ET: Legacy 2.75 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 99 AVG: 126 MAX: 141 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 52 AVG: 93 MAX: 106 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 224 |======================================== Core i9 9900K . 322 |========================================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 1.54 |================================ Core i9 9900K . 2.76 |========================================================= Tesseract 2014-05-12 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 99 AVG: 146 MAX: 159 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 53 AVG: 117 MAX: 131 Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 249 |================================ Core i9 9900K . 456 |========================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 2.04 |====================== Core i9 9900K . 5.19 |========================================================= Xonotic 0.8.2 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 100 AVG: 122 MAX: 126 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 55 AVG: 88 MAX: 102 Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 220 |================================= Core i9 9900K . 386 |========================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 1.70 |=========================== Core i9 9900K . 3.62 |========================================================= Xonotic 0.8.2 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 99 AVG: 130 MAX: 153 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 54 AVG: 107 MAX: 126 Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 196 |================================= Core i9 9900K . 341 |========================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 1.38 |========================== Core i9 9900K . 3.07 |========================================================= Xonotic 0.8.2 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 112 AVG: 142 MAX: 159 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 54 AVG: 111 MAX: 130 MBW 2018-09-08 Test: Memory Copy - Array Size: 4096 MiB MiB/s > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 6594 |======================== Core i9 9900K . 15504 |======================================================== MBW 2018-09-08 Test: Memory Copy - Array Size: 4096 MiB MiB/s Per Watt > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 55.88 |================ Core i9 9900K . 189.17 |======================================================= MBW 2018-09-08 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 112 AVG: 118 MAX: 121 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 54 AVG: 82 MAX: 91 CloverLeaf Lagrangian-Eulerian Hydrodynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. 10.05 |======================================================== Core i9 9900K . 5.40 |============================== CloverLeaf System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 99 AVG: 148 MAX: 169 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 53 AVG: 99 MAX: 117 NAMD 2.13b1 ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms days/ns < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. 4.93963 |====================================================== Core i9 9900K . 1.72909 |=================== NAMD 2.13b1 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 99 AVG: 220 MAX: 225 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 53 AVG: 156 MAX: 163 DaCapo Benchmark 9.12-MR1 Java Test: Tradesoap msec < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. 9128 |========================================================= Core i9 9900K . 3953 |========================= DaCapo Benchmark 9.12-MR1 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 101 AVG: 160 MAX: 188 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 77 AVG: 125 MAX: 154 TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3b Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 235 |========================== Core i9 9900K . 522 |========================================================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3b Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS Per Watt > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 1.23 |================= Core i9 9900K . 4.04 |========================================================= TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3b System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 100 AVG: 191 MAX: 195 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 54 AVG: 129 MAX: 139 x265 2.8 H.265 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 4.45 |=========================== Core i9 9900K . 9.29 |========================================================= x265 2.8 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 100 AVG: 203 MAX: 215 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 82 AVG: 150 MAX: 159 Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 1406 |======================= Core i9 9900K . 3438 |========================================================= Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS Per Watt > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 12.47 |================= Core i9 9900K . 42.02 |======================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 100 AVG: 113 MAX: 114 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 54 AVG: 82 MAX: 85 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 25728 |============================ Core i9 9900K . 51179 |======================================================== 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS Per Watt > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 138.77 |==================== Core i9 9900K . 374.27 |======================================================= 7-Zip Compression 16.02 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 99 AVG: 185 MAX: 196 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 53 AVG: 137 MAX: 147 Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. 189.80 |======================================================= Core i9 9900K . 71.76 |===================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 100 AVG: 186 MAX: 197 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 53 AVG: 143 MAX: 165 Timed LLVM Compilation 6.0.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. 1097 |========================================================= Core i9 9900K . 415 |====================== Timed LLVM Compilation 6.0.1 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 100 AVG: 188 MAX: 198 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 54 AVG: 156 MAX: 163 C-Ray 1.1 Total Time - 4K, 16 Rays Per Pixel Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. 167.61 |======================================================= Core i9 9900K . 75.23 |========================= C-Ray 1.1 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 191 AVG: 202 MAX: 203 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 104 AVG: 144 MAX: 145 Rust Mandelbrot Time To Complete Serial/Parallel Mandelbrot Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. 79.37 |======================================================== Core i9 9900K . 45.68 |================================ Rust Mandelbrot System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 101 AVG: 128 MAX: 168 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 53 AVG: 88 MAX: 123 FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. 16.43 |======================================================== Core i9 9900K . 7.76 |========================== FFmpeg 4.0.2 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. 7.85 |========================================================= Core i9 9900K . 5.14 |===================================== m-queens 1.2 Time To Solve Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. 165.12 |======================================================= Core i9 9900K . 86.49 |============================= m-queens 1.2 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 108 AVG: 194 MAX: 198 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 53 AVG: 124 MAX: 127 OpenSSL 1.1.1 RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 524 |=========== Core i9 9900K . 2629 |========================================================= OpenSSL 1.1.1 RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 2.73 |======== Core i9 9900K . 18.64 |======================================================== OpenSSL 1.1.1 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 100 AVG: 192 MAX: 202 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 53 AVG: 141 MAX: 153 Cryptsetup 2.0.4 PBKDF2-sha512 Iterations Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 804123 |======================= Core i9 9900K . 1920472 |====================================================== Cryptsetup PBKDF2-whirlpool Iterations Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 496803 |======================== Core i9 9900K . 1117884 |====================================================== Cryptsetup PBKDF2-whirlpool Iterations Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 4444.67 |================== Core i9 9900K . 13284.80 |===================================================== Cryptsetup System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i9 9900K . MIN: 53 AVG: 84 MAX: 105 Darktable 2.4.4 Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. 30.89 |======================================================== Core i9 9900K . 13.80 |========================= GIMP 2.10.6 Test: resize Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. 15.03 |======================================================== Core i9 9900K . 7.32 |=========================== Sysbench 2018-07-28 Test: Memory Events Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 19784662 |============================================ Core i9 9900K . 23978495 |===================================================== Sysbench 2018-07-28 Test: Memory Events Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 123365.00 |=================== Core i9 9900K . 335990.12 |==================================================== Sysbench 2018-07-28 Test: CPU Events Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 9134 |============================ Core i9 9900K . 18364 |======================================================== Sysbench 2018-07-28 Test: CPU Events Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 60.08 |=================== Core i9 9900K . 174.34 |======================================================= Blender 2.79a Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. 607 |========================================================== Core i9 9900K . 203 |=================== Blender 2.79a System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 99 AVG: 201 MAX: 205 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 53 AVG: 148 MAX: 152 PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. 1843 |========================================================= Core i9 9900K . 843 |========================== PyBench 2018-02-16 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 101 AVG: 111 MAX: 113 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 53 AVG: 79 MAX: 84 PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 376937 |========================== Core i9 9900K . 800848 |======================================================= PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score Per Watt > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 3398.23 |================== Core i9 9900K . 10259.77 |===================================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 100 AVG: 111 MAX: 112 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 53 AVG: 78 MAX: 83 RAR Compression 5.6.1 Linux Source Tree Archiving To RAR Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. 96.14 |======================================================== Core i9 9900K . 43.67 |========================= RAR Compression 5.6.1 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 100 AVG: 127 MAX: 139 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 53 AVG: 92 MAX: 100 Tesseract OCR 4.0.0-beta.3-249-g607e Time To OCR 7 Images Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. 40.66 |======================================================== Core i9 9900K . 21.98 |============================== BRL-CAD 7.28.0 VGR Performance Metric VGR Performance Metric > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 49086 |======================== Core i9 9900K . 113278 |======================================================= BRL-CAD 7.28.0 VGR Performance Metric VGR Performance Metric Per Watt > Higher Is Better Core i7 990X .. 235.44 |================== Core i9 9900K . 734.20 |======================================================= BRL-CAD 7.28.0 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. MIN: 99 AVG: 208 MAX: 215 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 53 AVG: 154 MAX: 163 Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Total ms < Lower Is Better Core i7 990X .. 26052 |======================================================== Core i9 9900K . 23041 |================================================== CPU Temperature Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Celsius Core i7 990X .. MIN: 30 AVG: 58 MAX: 81 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 30 AVG: 51 MAX: 68 System Power Consumption Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Watts Core i7 990X .. MIN: 99 AVG: 172 MAX: 225 Core i9 9900K . MIN: 52 AVG: 120 MAX: 165