Core i7-860: specs and benchmarks

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Core i7-860
2009
4 cores / 8 threads, 95 Watt
1.89

Core i7-860 provides poor benchmark performance at 1.89% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

Intel started Core i7-860 sales 8 September 2009 at a recommended price of $229. This is a Lynnfield architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 8 threads, and is based on 45 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3460 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA1156,LGA1156 processor with a TDP of 95 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.

Primary details

Core i7-860 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking1982
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.19
Market segmentDesktop processor
Power efficiency1.88of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameLynnfield (2009−2010)
Release date8 September 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores4 (Quad-Core)
Threads8
Base clock speed2.8 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed3.46 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
Bus rate2.5 GT/s
L1 cache64 KB (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache256 KB (per core)
L3 cache8 MB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography45 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size296 mm2
Maximum core temperature73 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
Number of transistors774 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-

Compatibility

Information on Core i7-860 compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFCLGA1156,LGA1156
Power consumption (TDP)95 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Core i7-860. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Turbo Boost Technology1.0
Hyper-Threading Technology+
Idle States+
Demand Based Switching-
PAE36 Bit

Security technologies

Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+
EDB+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

VT-d+
VT-x+
EPT+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Core i7-860's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3
Maximum memory size16 GBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth21 GB/sof 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124)

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Core i7-860.

Integrated graphics cardN/A

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version2.0of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K)
PCI Express lanes16of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Core i7-860. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

i7-860 1.89

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

i7-860 3001

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

i7-860 449

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

i7-860 1465

3DMark Fire Strike Physics

i7-860 4280

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Core i7-860's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.


A8-6600K 100
Core i7-860 100
FX-4300 99.47
A10-5800K 98.94

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Core i7-860 is A8-6600K, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Core i7-860:

A8-6600K 100
Core i7-860 100
FX-4300 99.47
A10-5800K 98.94

Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Core i7-860, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Core i7-860 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 4404 configurations using Core i7-860 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.6% (26/4404)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
0.07% (3/4404)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.02% (1/4404)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.1% (6/4404)
RX 6900 Radeon RX 6900
0.02% (1/4404)
RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 3090
0.02% (1/4404)
RTX 4060 Ti GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
0.02% (1/4404)

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