description Intel Core i7-990X

• Name
  Intel Core i7-990X
• Family
  Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition
• CPU group
  Intel Core i7 900
• Segment
  Desktop / Server
• Generation
  1

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

• CPU Cores / Threads
  6 / 12
• Core architecture
  normal
• Cores
  6x
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes
• Frequency
  3.46 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.73 GHz

• GPU name
  no iGPU
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No
• h264
  No
• VP8
  No
• VP9
  No
• AV1
  No
• AVC
  No
• VC-1
  No
• JPEG
  No

• Memory type
  DDR3-1066
• Max. Memory
  24 GB
• Memory channels
  3
• Bandwidth
  25.6 GB/s
• ECC
  No
• AES-NI
  No

• TDP (PL1)
  130 W

• Technology
  32 nm
• Chip design
  Monolithic
• Socket
  LGA 1366
• L2-Cache
  1.50 MB
• L3-Cache
  12.00 MB
• Architecture
  Gulftown
• Operating systems
  Windows 10, Linux
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• Release date
  Q1/2011
• Release price
  1059 $
• Documents
  Technical data sheet