Intel Core i7-3930K Benchmark, Test and specs

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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.
Intel Core i7-3930K

CPU lineage

The segment in which we have classified the Intel Core i7-3930K. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Intel Core i7-3930K.

Name: Intel Core i7-3930K
Family: Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition (24)
CPU group: Intel Core i 3000X (4)
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

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.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
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

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Benchmark results

Verified 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.

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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 Intel Core i5-4670T
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
780
Intel Core i7-4510U Intel Core i7-4510U
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
780
Intel Core i7-4930K Intel Core i7-4930K
6C 12T @ 3.90 GHz
780
Intel Core i7-3930K Intel Core i7-3930K
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz
778
Intel Core i5-6267U Intel Core i5-6267U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
778
Intel Celeron G3950 Intel Celeron G3950
2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz
777
Apple A10 Fusion 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 Intel Core i5-8400
6C 6T @ 3.80 GHz
4608
Intel Xeon Gold 5222 Intel Xeon Gold 5222
4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz
4588
Intel Xeon E3-1240 v6 Intel Xeon E3-1240 v6
4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz
4582
Intel Core i7-3930K Intel Core i7-3930K
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz
4576
Intel Core i7-1160G7 Intel Core i7-1160G7
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
4546
Intel Xeon D-1559 Intel Xeon D-1559
12C 24T @ 2.10 GHz
4530
Intel Xeon E3-1535M v6 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 Intel Core i5-3570S
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
732
Intel Core i7-3770 Intel Core i7-3770
4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz
732
Intel Pentium G3460 Intel Pentium G3460
2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz
732
Intel Core i7-3930K Intel Core i7-3930K
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz
731
Intel Core i7-3820 Intel Core i7-3820
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
729
Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2 Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
726
Intel Core i5-3550 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 Intel Core i5-7300HQ
4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
3218
AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3200G AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3200G
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
3215
AMD Ryzen 3 1300X AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
3202
Intel Core i7-3930K Intel Core i7-3930K
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz
3201
Intel Core i5-5575R Intel Core i5-5575R
4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
3198
Intel Core i5-6600T Intel Core i5-6600T
4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
3198
Intel Core i3-8100T 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 Intel Core i5-3570K
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
275
Intel Core i5-L16G7 Intel Core i5-L16G7
5C 5T @ 3.00 GHz
272
Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz
271
Intel Core i7-3930K Intel Core i7-3930K
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz
269
Intel Xeon E5-2695 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2695 v3
14C 28T @ 3.30 GHz
264
Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3
12C 24T @ 3.30 GHz
263
Intel Core i7-2600K 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 Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2
6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz
2053
Intel Core i5-11300H Intel Core i5-11300H
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
2034
Intel Core i3-10300T Intel Core i3-10300T
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
2001
Intel Core i7-3930K Intel Core i7-3930K
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz
1986
Intel Core i7-4790K Intel Core i7-4790K
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
1982
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
1969
AMD Ryzen 5 3400G 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 AMD FX-8320
8C 8T @ 3.75 GHz
8291
AMD Ryzen 5 3400GE AMD Ryzen 5 3400GE
4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz
8282
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400GE AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400GE
4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz
8280
Intel Core i7-3930K Intel Core i7-3930K
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz
8254
Intel Core i7-6870HQ Intel Core i7-6870HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
8236
Intel Core i7-6820HQ Intel Core i7-6820HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
8236
Intel Core i3-10100E 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 Intel Core i7-4790K
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
407
Intel Core i7-6700 Intel Core i7-6700
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz
409.7
Intel Core i7-8809G Intel Core i7-8809G
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz
415.8
Intel Core i7-3930K Intel Core i7-3930K
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz
427.7
AMD Ryzen 5 3400G AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
458.6
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
458.6
Intel Core i7-4790 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 Intel Core i7-3970X
6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz
2623
Intel Core i7-11370H Intel Core i7-11370H
4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz
2613
Intel Core i7-1195G7 Intel Core i7-1195G7
4C 8T @ 2.90 GHz
2602
Intel Core i7-3930K Intel Core i7-3930K
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz
2588
Intel Core i7-8750H Intel Core i7-8750H
6C 12T @ 2.20 GHz
2586
Intel Core i5-9400 Intel Core i5-9400
6C 6T @ 2.90 GHz
2585
Intel Core i5-8500 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 AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
130
Intel Core m7-6Y75 Intel Core m7-6Y75
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
130
Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
130
Intel Core i7-3930K Intel Core i7-3930K
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz
129
Intel Core i5-4210H Intel Core i5-4210H
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
129
AMD Ryzen 3 2200U AMD Ryzen 3 2200U
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
129
Intel Pentium Gold G5400T 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 Intel Xeon E3-1280 v6
4C 8T @ 4.10 GHz
927
Intel Core i5-8400 Intel Core i5-8400
6C 6T @ 3.80 GHz
925
Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2
10C 20T @ 2.60 GHz
916
Intel Core i7-3930K Intel Core i7-3930K
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz
915
Intel Core i3-10105F Intel Core i3-10105F
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
912
Intel Core i5-9600T Intel Core i5-9600T
6C 6T @ 3.20 GHz
908
Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6 Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
905

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