Intel Core i7-3930K Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2023-04-03

The Intel Core i7-3930K has 6 cores with 12 threads and is based on the 3. gen of the Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition series. The processor uses a mainboard with the LGA 2011 socket and was released in Q4/2011. The Intel Core i7-3930K scores 778 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 4,576 points.

CPU lineage
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Name:	Intel Core i7-3930K
Family:	Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition
CPU group:	Intel Core i 3000X
Architecture:	Sandy Bridge E
Segment:	Desktop / Server
Generation:	3
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i7-3930K has 6 CPU cores and can calculate 12 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i7-3930K is 3.20 GHz (3.80 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads:	6 / 12
Core architecture:	normal
Cores:	6x

Hyperthreading / SMT:	Yes
Overclocking:	Yes
Frequency:	3.20 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	3.80 GHz
Turbo Frequency (6 Cores):	3.80 GHz

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i7-3930K has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i7-3930K uses the no iGPU, which has -- texture shaders and -- execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name:	no iGPU
GPU frequency:
GPU (Turbo):	No turbo
Compute units:	--
Shader:	--
Max. GPU Memory:	--

Max. displays:
Generation:	--
Direct X:	--
Technology:
Release date:

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit):	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit):	No
h264:	No
VP8:	No
VP9:	No

AV1:	No
AVC:	No
VC-1:	No
JPEG:	No

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The processor can use up to 64 GB memory in 4 (Quad Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 51.2 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

DDR3-1600	51.2 GB/s
Max. Memory:	64 GB
Memory channels:	4 (Quad Channel)
ECC:	No
PCIe:
PCIe Bandwidth:	--

Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 130 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP):	130 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	--
Tjunction max.:	--

Technical details

The Intel Core i7-3930K is made in 32 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 12.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology:	32 nm
Chip design:	Monolithic
Socket:	LGA 2011
L2-Cache:	--
L3-Cache:	12.00 MB
AES-NI:	Yes
Operating systems:	Windows 10, Linux

Virtualization:	VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d (C2 Stepping)
Instruction set (ISA):	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions:	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date:	Q4/2011
Release price:	480 $
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

Intel Core i7-3930K
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz (3.80 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Core i7-3930K have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.

Screenshots:

Cinebench R15 on MSI X79A-GD65 (64 GB RAM), Windows 10 Pro

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i5-4670T 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	780
	Intel Core i7-4510U 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	780
	Intel Core i7-4930K 6C 12T @ 3.90 GHz	780
	Intel Core i7-3930K 6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz	778
	Intel Core i5-6267U 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	778
	Intel Celeron G3950 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	777
	Apple A10 Fusion 4C 4T @ 2.34 GHz	776

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i5-8400 6C 6T @ 3.80 GHz	4608
	Intel Xeon Gold 5222 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	4588
	Intel Xeon E3-1240 v6 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	4582
	Intel Core i7-3930K 6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz	4576
	Intel Core i7-1160G7 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	4546
	Intel Xeon D-1559 12C 24T @ 2.10 GHz	4530
	Intel Xeon E3-1535M v6 4C 8T @ 3.10 GHz	4521

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	Intel Core i5-3570S 4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	732
	Intel Core i7-3770 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	732
	Intel Pentium G3460 2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz	732
	Intel Core i7-3930K 6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz	731
	Intel Core i7-3820 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	729
	Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2 6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz	726
	Intel Core i5-3550 4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	724

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	Intel Core i5-7300HQ 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	3218
	AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3200G 4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	3215
	AMD Ryzen 3 1300X 4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	3202
	Intel Core i7-3930K 6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz	3201
	Intel Core i5-5575R 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	3198
	Intel Core i5-6600T 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	3198
	Intel Core i3-8100T 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	3193

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i5-3570K 4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	275
	Intel Core i5-L16G7 5C 5T @ 3.00 GHz	272
	Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz	271
	Intel Core i7-3930K 6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz	269
	Intel Xeon E5-2695 v3 14C 28T @ 3.30 GHz	264
	Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 12C 24T @ 3.30 GHz	263
	Intel Core i7-2600K 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	263

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz	2053
	Intel Core i5-11300H 4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz	2034
	Intel Core i3-10300T 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	2001
	Intel Core i7-3930K 6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz	1986
	Intel Core i7-4790K 4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz	1982
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G 4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	1969
	AMD Ryzen 5 3400G 4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	1969

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	AMD FX-8320 8C 8T @ 3.75 GHz	8291
	AMD Ryzen 5 3400GE 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	8282
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400GE 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	8280
	Intel Core i7-3930K 6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz	8254
	Intel Core i7-6870HQ 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	8236
	Intel Core i7-6820HQ 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	8236
	Intel Core i3-10100E 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	8235

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.


	Intel Core i7-4790K 4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz	407
	Intel Core i7-6700 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	409.7
	Intel Core i7-8809G 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	415.8
	Intel Core i7-3930K 6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz	427.7
	AMD Ryzen 5 3400G 4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	458.6
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G 4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	458.6
	Intel Core i7-4790 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	460

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Intel Core i7-3970X 6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz	2623
	Intel Core i7-11370H 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	2613
	Intel Core i7-1195G7 4C 8T @ 2.90 GHz	2602
	Intel Core i7-3930K 6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz	2588
	Intel Core i7-8750H 6C 12T @ 2.20 GHz	2586
	Intel Core i5-9400 6C 6T @ 2.90 GHz	2585
	Intel Core i5-8500 6C 6T @ 3.00 GHz	2563

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	130
	Intel Core m7-6Y75 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	130
	Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	130
	Intel Core i7-3930K 6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz	129
	Intel Core i5-4210H 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	129
	AMD Ryzen 3 2200U 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	129
	Intel Pentium Gold G5400T 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	129

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Xeon E3-1280 v6 4C 8T @ 4.10 GHz	927
	Intel Core i5-8400 6C 6T @ 3.80 GHz	925
	Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 10C 20T @ 2.60 GHz	916
	Intel Core i7-3930K 6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz	915
	Intel Core i3-10105F 4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz	912
	Intel Core i5-9600T 6C 6T @ 3.20 GHz	908
	Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6 4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	905

Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,439 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,412 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,700 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,649 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
648 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
596 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,340 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
728 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,105 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,100 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
942 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
938 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
825 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
836 entries

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