![]() The reintroduction of a soldered heat spreader has also amounted to one of Intel’s coolest-running chips in years. The Intel Core i9-9900K's sizable increase in processing power can’t be understated, and this CPU will be a boon to any video editor, Photoshop master or other types of creatives.ĭespite the 9900K touting the biggest specs we’ve seen on a mainstream Intel processor, it still sips power as economically as Intel’s last generation chips. Intel might be late to the game with its first mainstream octa-core processor, but the Intel Core i9-9900K is an impressive debut. But, at the time of this review, if you're a gamer, you’re better off getting a more affordable CPU. Of course, like everyone else, we’re testing this processor on early drivers, so we may see performance improvements as new software rolls out in the next few weeks to months. Instead, we got a message that our system doesn’t have enough resources to run the game at 1080p and highest quality settings. Plugging in our Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti seemed to only exacerbate the situation to the point where we couldn’t even start Shadow of the Tomb Raider. To be fair, we’ve also ran across a string of bugs in our testing including the processor and motherboard not recognizing our Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, which then resulted in multiple blue-screens of death and computer crashes. The most startling surprise was that we saw no performance increase in CPU-intensive games like Total War: Warhammer II. Our gaming benchmarks show that the chip running at stock settings will deliver the same, if not worse, frame rates than the last generation Intel Core i7-8700K – a CPU with two fewer cores and four fewer threads. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, it seems Intel was a little presumptuous in calling this chip the world’s best gaming processor. That’s a very good thing if you only mean to upgrade your CPU, as the only thing Intel’s new Z390 platform brings is USB 3.1 Gen 2 support for 10Gbps data transfer speeds through traditional full-sized USB ports and integrated 802.11ac Wi-Fi 5 for gigabit wireless speeds. The Intel Core i9-9900K is fully compatible with existing Z370 motherboards. Unlike Coffee Lake, users won’t necessarily have to splurge on a new motherboard just to install this Core i9 chip. By our numbers, the Intel Core i9-9900K runs a full 10-degrees Celsius degrees cooler than both the Intel Core i7-8700K and Intel Core i7-8086K. This new solder-based thermal interface material has helped immensely with heat dissipation. ![]() One other little detail we’re very excited about with Intel’s new line of processors is that they all feature a soldered, integrated heat spreader (IHS). The most impressive thing about the Intel Core i9-9900K, however, is that it integrates all these cores and threads – not to mention, 400MHz higher clock speeds – into chips with the same 95-watt (W) thermal package as previous Coffee Lake CPUs. Intel’s new Core i9 chip, on the other hand, is rated to start at a 3.6GHz base frequency and boost to 5.0GHz with a single-core, or 4.7GHz with six- to-eight cores. Speaking of AMD, the Ryzen 7 2700X also features eight-cores and 16-threads with base and boost clock speeds of 3.7GHz and 4.3GHz, respectively. ![]() This translates to hyper-threading performance that will finally outpace its AMD rivals, the Ryzen 2nd Generation processors. Not only is the Intel Core i9-9900K one of two of the company’s first mainstream octa-core processors – the other being the Intel Core i7-9700K – but it also features the highest thread count in the Coffee Lake Refresh lineup at 16. ![]()
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