Core i7-920: specs and benchmarks

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Core i7-920
2008
4 cores / 8 threads, 130 Watt
1.79

Core i7-920 provides poor benchmark performance at 1.79% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

Intel started Core i7-920 sales on November 2008 at a recommended price of $340. This is a Bloomfield 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 2930 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA1366,PLGA1366 processor with a TDP of 130 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.

Primary details

Core i7-920 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking2013
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.22
Market segmentDesktop processor
SeriesCore i7 (Desktop)
Power efficiency1.30of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U)
Architecture codenameBloomfield (2008−2010)
Release dateNovember 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$340of 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 speed2.66 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed2.93 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
Bus rate1333 MHz
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 size263 mm2
Maximum core temperature68 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
Number of transistors731 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-

Compatibility

Information on Core i7-920 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)
SocketFCLGA1366,PLGA1366
Power consumption (TDP)130 Wattof 3100 ‑ 4500 (Ryzen 7 7435H)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Core i7-920. 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-x+
EPT+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Core i7-920's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3
Maximum memory size24 GBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels3of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sof 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Core i7-920. 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.

i7-920 1.79

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.

i7-920 2837

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.

i7-920 415

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.

i7-920 1424

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

i7-920 3874

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

i7-920 15576

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

i7-920 4728

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

i7-920 5

3DMark Fire Strike Physics

i7-920 3970

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Core i7-920's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.


Core i3-4150T 101.12
A8-5600K 100.56
Core i7-920 100
A8-6500 99.44

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Core i7-920 is A8-5600K, which is faster by 1% and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Core i7-920:

A8-6500B 101.68
A8-5600K 100.56
Core i7-920 100
A8-6500 99.44
A10-5700 96.65
A6-9400 95.53

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 i7-920, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Core i7-920 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 2924 configurations using Core i7-920 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.5% (15/2924)
RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 7900 XTX
0.03% (1/2924)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.1% (4/2924)
RX 7900 XT Radeon RX 7900 XT
0.1% (3/2924)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.1% (3/2924)
RX 6900 Radeon RX 6900
0.03% (1/2924)
RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 3080
0.03% (1/2924)
RX 7800 XT Radeon RX 7800 XT
0.1% (3/2924)
RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
0.03% (1/2924)
RTX 4060 Ti GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
0.07% (2/2924)

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