Intel Core i7-5960X: CPU Specs and Performance, Benchmarks
The Intel Core i7-5960X is a 8-core and 16-thread processor configuration with a base clock speed of 3000 MHz. The CPU specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.
Performance (Benchmarks)
- Geekbench 5 Single-Core Score
- 929
- Geekbench 5 Multi-Core Score
- 7205
- PassMark CPU Mark Rating
- 12569
- PassMark Single Thread Rating
- 1969
- 3DMark Time Spy Physics Score
- 8930
Processor Specs
- Processor
- Intel Core i7-5960X
- Frequency
- 3000 MHz
- Maximum Frequency
- 3500 MHz
- Cores
- 8
- Threads
- 16
- TDP
- 140 W
- Codename
- Haswell E
- Package
- LGA2011-v3

Geekbench 5 Benchmark
- Single-Core Score
- 932
- Multi-Core Score
- 6920
- Benchmark
- Geekbench 5.4.1 Tryout for Windows x86 (64-bit)
System Information
- Operating System
- Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (64-bit)
- Model
- ASUS All Series
- Motherboard
- ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. RAMPAGE V EXTREME
- Power Plan
- High performance
CPU Specifications
- Name
- Intel Core i7-5960X
- Topology
- 1 Processor, 8 Cores, 16 Threads
- Identifier
- GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 63 Stepping 2
- Base Frequency
- 2.92 GHz
- Maximum Frequency
- 3607 MHz
- Package
- Socket 2011 LGA
- Codename
- Haswell-E/EP
- L1 Instruction Cache
- 32.0 KB x 8
- L1 Data Cache
- 32.0 KB x 8
- L2 Cache
- 256 KB x 8
- L3 Cache
- 20.0 MB x 1
Memory Information
- Size
- 64.00 GB
- Frequency
- 1040 MHz
- Type
- DDR4 SDRAM
- Channels
- 4
Geekbench 5 result (single)
| Single-Core Score | 932 |
|---|---|
| Crypto Score | 1232 |
| Integer Score | 879 |
| Floating Point Score | 998 |
| AES-XTS | 1232 2.10 GB/sec |
| Text Compression (LZMA) | 988 5.00 MB/sec |
| Image Compression | 981 46.4 Mpixels/sec |
| Navigation (using Dijkstra's algorithm) | 857 2.42 MTE/sec |
| HTML5 | 844 991.5 KElements/sec |
| SQLite | 852 266.9 Krows/sec |
| PDF Rendering | 855 46.4 Mpixels/sec |
| Text Rendering | 866 276.0 KB/sec |
| Clang | 862 6.72 Klines/sec |
| Camera | 822 9.52 images/sec |
| N-Body Physics | 828 1.04 Mpairs/sec |
| Rigid Body Physics | 958 5933.0 FPS |
| Gaussian Blur | 785 43.2 Mpixels/sec |
| Face Detection | 889 6.84 images/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 894 22.0 Mpixels/sec |
| Image Inpainting | 1571 77.1 Mpixels/sec |
| HDR | 1692 23.1 Mpixels/sec |
| Ray Tracing | 1092 877.0 Kpixels/sec |
| Structure from Motion | 807 7.23 Kpixels/sec |
| Speech Recognition | 959 30.7 Words/sec |
| Machine Learning | 876 33.9 images/sec |
Geekbench 5 result (multi)
| Multi-Core Score | 6920 |
|---|---|
| Crypto Score | 6466 |
| Integer Score | 6759 |
| Floating Point Score | 7345 |
| AES-XTS | 6466 11.0 GB/sec |
| Text Compression (LZMA) | 8261 41.8 MB/sec |
| Image Compression | 8889 420.5 Mpixels/sec |
| Navigation (using Dijkstra's algorithm) | 4365 12.3 MTE/sec |
| HTML5 | 6151 7.22 MElements/sec |
| SQLite | 7007 2.20 Mrows/sec |
| PDF Rendering | 7504 407.2 Mpixels/sec |
| Text Rendering | 6173 1.92 MB/sec |
| Clang | 7408 57.7 Klines/sec |
| Camera | 6210 72.0 images/sec |
| N-Body Physics | 5890 7.37 Mpairs/sec |
| Rigid Body Physics | 9393 58190.3 FPS |
| Gaussian Blur | 6766 371.9 Mpixels/sec |
| Face Detection | 7301 56.2 images/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 7741 190.8 Mpixels/sec |
| Image Inpainting | 10761 527.9 Mpixels/sec |
| HDR | 13603 185.4 Mpixels/sec |
| Ray Tracing | 9300 7.47 Mpixels/sec |
| Structure from Motion | 6593 59.1 Kpixels/sec |
| Speech Recognition | 5325 170.2 Words/sec |
| Machine Learning | 3321 128.3 images/sec |