Core i9-7900X CPU by Intel Review

How We Tested

During our benchmarking sessions, we used the configuration listed below. Between our benchmarking sessions, the only variable devicand was the CPU being tested, besides the motherboard and memory, which had to be replaced to match the different CPUs.
Hardware Configuration

• Motherboard (LGA2066): Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 7
• Motherboard (AM4): ASRock X370 Taichi
• Motherboard (LGA1151): Gigabyte AORUS Z270X-Gaming 7
• Motherboard (LGA2011-v3): ASRock X99 Extreme6/3.1
• Memory (DDR4): 64 GiB DDR4-3000, four HyperX Predator 16 GiB memory modules configured at 3000 MHz
• Boot drive: Samsung 960 EVO 500 GiB SSD
• Video Card: GeForce GTX 1080
• Video Monitor: Philips 236VL
• Power Supply: Corsair CX600

Operating System Configuration

• Windows 10 Home 64-bit
• NTFS
• Video resolution: 1920 x 1080 60 Hz

Driver Versions

• NVIDIA driver version: 384.94

Software Used

• 3DMark
• Blender
• Cinebench R15
• CPU-Z 1.80
• Handbrake
• PCMark 10
• WinRAR 4.2
• Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
• GTA V
• Hitman
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
• Rise of the Tomb Rider

Error Margin
We adopted a 3% error margin. Thus, differences below 3% cannot be considered relevant. In other words, products with a performance difference below 3% should be considered as having similar performance.