Core i7-9700F: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Core i7-9700F provides acceptable benchmark performance at 8.66% of a leader's which is a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

Summary

Intel started Core i7-9700F sales 23 April 2019 at a recommended price of $323. This is a Coffee Lake architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 8 cores and 8 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4700 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA1151 processor with a TDP of 65 Watt and a maximum temperature of 72 °C. It supports DDR4-2666 memory.

Primary details

Core i7-9700F processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking895
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation9.22
Market segmentDesktop processor
SeriesIntel Core i7
Power efficiency12.15of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U)
Architecture codenameCoffee Lake (2017−2019)
Release date23 April 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$323of 17,906 (tray) (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 cores8 (Octa-Core)
Threads8
Base clock speed3 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed4.7 GHzof 50 MHz (i486DX-50)
Bus typeDMI 3.0
Bus rate4 × 8 GT/s
Multiplier30of 42 (Core i7-7700K)
L1 cache512 KBof 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache2 MBof 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache12 MB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography14 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Maximum core temperature100 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
Maximum case temperature (TCase)72 °Cof 105 °C (Core i7-5950HQ)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+

Compatibility

Information on Core i7-9700F 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 configuration1 (Uniprocessor)of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFCLGA1151
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattof 3100 ‑ 4500 (Ryzen 7 7435H)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Core i7-9700F. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NI+
AVX+
vPro+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Turbo Boost Technology2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology-
TSX+
Idle States+
Thermal Monitoring+
SIPP+

Security technologies

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

TXT+
EDB+
Secure Key+
MPX+
Identity Protection+
SGXYes with Intel® ME
OS Guard+

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 i7-9700F's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-2666
Maximum memory size128 GBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth42.671 GB/sof 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version3.0of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K)
PCI Express lanes16of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Core i7-9700F. 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.

i7-9700F 8.66

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.

i7-9700F 13250

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.

i7-9700F 1575

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.

i7-9700F 6304

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Core i7-9700F's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.


Core i3-13100 101.27
Core i5-10500 101.27
Ryzen 3 3300X 101.27
Core i7-9700F 100
Core i7-9700 99.88
Ryzen 5 2600 99.54

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Core i7-9700F is Ryzen 5 2600, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 3 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Core i7-9700F:

Ryzen 3 3300X 101.27
Core i7-9700F 100
Ryzen 5 2600 99.54

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 i7-9700F, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Core i7-9700F in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 3368 configurations using Core i7-9700F in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.8% (27/3368)
RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 4080
0.09% (3/3368)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
0.1% (4/3368)
RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 7900 XTX
0.03% (1/3368)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.1% (5/3368)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.5% (16/3368)
RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 4070
0.4% (14/3368)
RX 6900 XT Radeon RX 6900 XT
0.03% (1/3368)

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