Intel Core i9-9980XE vs Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus — Specifications, performance, tests

Differences
Specifications Benchmarks Testimonials

Differences

Reasons to consider
Intel Core i9-9980XE

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Positions in all rankings

Common positions Intel Core i9-9980XE CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

178 place
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

36 place
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

101 place
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

42 place
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

296 place
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

38 place
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

55 place

Reasons to consider
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus

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Higher clock speed

Around 23% better clock speed

3.70 GHz 3.00 GHz
More number of cores

6 more cores

24 18
Higher turbo clock speed

Around 22 % higher specified turbo frequency

5.50 GHz 4.50 GHz
Lower stated TDP / base power

Power limits alone do not measure performance per watt.

125 W 165 W

Specifications

Technical data

Intel Core i9-9980XE

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus

CPU family and group

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

CPU group

Intel Core i 9000X -
Family

Intel Core i9 Intel Core Ultra 200
Generation

9 -
Segment

Desktop / Server Desktop

CPU Technical specs

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

Base Frequency

3 GHz 3.7 GHz
Core architecture

normal -
CPU Cores

18 24
CPU Threads

36 24
Hyperthreading / SMT

Yes -
Overclocking

Yes -
Turbo Frequency (1 Core)

4.5 GHz 5.5 GHz
Turbo Frequency (18 Cores)

4 GHz -
E-core Base Clock

- 3.2 GHz
E-core Max Turbo

- 4.7 GHz
Efficient Cores

- 16
P-core Base Clock

- 3.7 GHz
P-core Max Turbo

- 5.4 GHz
Performance Cores

- 8

IGPU

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

GPU name

None -

Hardware codec support

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

AV1

No -
H.264 / AVC

No -
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)

No -
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)

No -
JPEG

No -
VC-1

No -
VP8

No -
VP9

No -

Memory specs & PCI

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Intel Core i9-9980XE. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

ECC

No -
Max. Memory

128 GB 256 GB
Memory channels

4 2
Memory type

DDR4-2666 DDR5-7200
PCIe lanes

48 -
PCIe version

3.0 -

Encryption

AES-NI

Yes -

Thermal Management

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i9-9980XE and Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

Maximum Operating Temperature

84 °C -
TDP (PL1, legacy label)

165 W -
TDP (PL2)

- 250 W
TDP (PL1 / PBP, legacy combined label)

- 125 W

Technologies and extensions

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i9-9980XE and Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

Architecture

Skylake X Refresh Arrow Lake
Instruction set (ISA)

x86-64 (64 bit) -
ISA extensions

SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 -
L2-Cache

- 40 MB
L3-Cache

25 MB 36 MB
Release date

Q4/2018 Q1/2026
Socket

LGA 2066 FCLGA1851
Technology

14 nm TSMC N3B
Virtualization

VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d -
Intel Smart Cache

- 36 MB

Benchmarks

Performance tests CPUs

Individual model tests

These results have no shared test of both models with the same version and settings. They are shown separately without a percentage difference.

Intel Core i9-9980XE

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus

Blender 4.5.0 / CPU / Windows 611.124396 samples/min
Blender 5.1.0 / CPU / Windows 642.985807 samples/min
Blender 5.1.1 / CPU / Linux 677.377611 samples/min
Blender 5.1.1 / CPU / Windows 634.685294 samples/min
Blender 5.2.0 / CPU / Linux 649.882379 samples/min
Blender 5.2.0 / CPU / Windows 609.017486 samples/min

Results with primary test sources

Published measurements are separate from the archived index. Incomplete conditions and unknown run counts do not support ranking positions or calculated performance differences.

Model	Test	Result	Reported conditions
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus	Cinebench 2026 / multi-core	10063 points	Graphics card: Asus ROG Strix RTX 4090 OC Edition System RAM: 32 GB DDR5-8200 CL40-52-52-131 CUDIMM OS: Windows 11 23H2 Motherboard: Asus ROG Maximus Z890 Hero BIOS: 1501 Driver: GeForce Game Ready Driver 572.70 WHQL Profile: Intel Default Profile
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus	Cinebench 2026 / single-core	598 points	Graphics card: Asus ROG Strix RTX 4090 OC Edition System RAM: 32 GB DDR5-8200 CL40-52-52-131 CUDIMM OS: Windows 11 23H2 Motherboard: Asus ROG Maximus Z890 Hero BIOS: 1501 Driver: GeForce Game Ready Driver 572.70 WHQL Profile: Intel Default Profile

Individual system tests

Results were obtained on the reported systems. Test versions and settings remain separate; incomplete conditions do not support calculated model performance differences.

RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 24 threads / windows

Model	Result	Reported conditions
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus	13359.874952 H/s	RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 24 threads / windows System RAM: 48 GB OS: Windows NT 10.0 Motherboard: ASRock / Z890 Pro-A Duration: 74.851 s User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.