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Intel Core i5 9400F Cpu
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Intel Core i7 8700K Cpu
Intel Core i7 8700K
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Intel's Core i5-9400 and -9400F CPUs, armed with with six cores and six threads, come to defend the company's gaming dominance in the mid-range market.Read more
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Intel’s hexa-core processor rises above RyzenRead more
With high clocks and hexa-core design, Intel's top eighth-generation/"Coffee Lake" desktop CPU impresses as a mainstream "do-it-all" processor. It's an excellent gamer, too, when paired with a high-end video card.Read more
Intel's Core i7-8700 sports all of the goodness expected from its Coffee Lake architecture. However, the bundled cooler proves insufficient under taxing workloads.Read more
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General

Processor socketLGA 1151LGA 1151LGA 1151
Component forPCPCPC
Operating modes64-bit64-bit
N/A

Processor

Clock speed2.9 GHz3.2 GHz3.7 GHz
Max turbo speed4.1 GHz4.6 GHz4.7 GHz
Number of cores666
Number of threads61212
Thermal Design Power (TDP)65.0 W65.0 W95.0 W
Processor lithography0.0 in0.0 in0.0 in
Bus typeDMI3DMI3DMI3
Idle statesyesyesyes

Integrated Graphics

On-board graphics adapternoyesyes
TypeNot availableIntel UHD Graphics 630Intel UHD Graphics 630
On-board graphics adapter base frequency
N/A
350.0 MHz350.0 MHz
On-board graphics adapter DirectX version
N/A
12.012.0

Memory

Cache9 MB12 MB12 MB
Cache typeSmart CacheSmart CacheSmart Cache
Memory clock speeds supported by processor2666.0 MHz2666.0 MHz2666.0 MHz
Maximum internal memory supported by processor128.0 GB64.0 GB64.0 GB
Memory types supported by processorDDR4 SDRAMDDR4 SDRAMDDR4 SDRAM
Memory bandwidth supported by processor (max)41.6 GB/s41.6 GB/s41.6 GB/s
Memory channelsDualDualDual

Thermals

Cooler includednoyesno
Thermal specification212.0 °F212.0 °F
N/A

Features

Thermal monitoring technologiesyesyesyes
Maximum number of PCI Express lanes161616
Supported instruction sets
  • AVX 2.0
  • SSE4.1
  • SSE4.2
  • AVX 2.0
  • SSE4.1
  • SSE4.2
  • AVX 2.0
  • SSE4.1
  • SSE4.2
Execute disable bityesyesyes
Scalability1S1S1S

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