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Intel Core i7-5960X vs MediaTek MT8168

Last updated: 2026-07-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-5960X

Rank 2 - 16 %

MediaTek MT8168

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-5960X

Rank 2 - 7 %

MediaTek MT8168

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 16T · 3.50 GHz

1,154

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

188

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 16T · 3.20 GHz

7,640

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

520

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 16T · 3.50 GHz

1,002

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

165

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 16T · 3.20 GHz

7,843

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

524

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-5960X	MediaTek MT8168
Family	Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition (24)	Mediatek MT-Serie (72)
CPU group	Intel Core i 5000X (3)	MediaTek MT816x 12nm (1)
Architecture	Haswell E	Cortex-A53
Technology	22 nm	12 nm
Segment	Desktop	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	LGA 2011-3
Predecessor	Intel Core i7-4960X
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-5960X	MediaTek MT8168
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 16	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	8x	4x Cortex-A53
Frequency:	3.00 GHz	2.00 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.50 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	3.20 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	20.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-5960X	MediaTek MT8168
GPU name	no iGPU	ARM Mali-G52 MP1
GPU frequency		0.85 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	1 / 16
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays		2
Max. GPU Memory
Technology		16 nm
Release date		Q3/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-5960X	MediaTek MT8168
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-5960X	MediaTek MT8168
Memory	DDR4-2133 (68.2 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-1866 (14.9 GB/s) LPDDR4-1600 (12.8 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	3 GB
Memory channels	4	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 40
PCIe Bandwidth	39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-5960X	MediaTek MT8168
TDP	140 W	3 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-5960X	MediaTek MT8168
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Android
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q3/2014	Q2/2020
Release price	829 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-5960X is 4.6 stars (18 ratings), while MediaTek MT8168 has received 2.5 stars (8 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-5960X
8C / 16T · 3.00 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★

MediaTek MT8168
4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

★★★★★