At IFA 2019, Intel held a press conference during which it revealed that the Core i9-9900KS, a processor capable of reaching 5GHz across its eight Cores, first unveiled at Computex, will be launched in October.
This is essentially a bundled version of the Core i9-9900K, which means that Intel has selected the best silicon among these components: chips capable of hitting 5 GHz on all cores (typically the 9900K n' hit 39 GHz with a Turbo core only).
While Intel has revealed that the 9900KS will hit stores next month, it has unfortunately not indicated the price, nor even revealed the TDP (although it will certainly be higher than the base 95W 9900K).
What Intel has said is that the 5GHz turbo speed corresponds to 5GHz, which was clearly a benefit to AMD, and the recent controversy over Ryzen 3000 processors not reaching the advertised speed increases (Due to a bug in firmware, says AMD, promised that it is repairing).
In fact, to point out that, as The Guru of 3D stated, Intel showed a slide titled "Community Quiz" that highlighted the entire Ryzen 3000 push episode and issues related to 'clock, performance consistency, and (the) transparency' .
As Tom's hardware indicates, Intel introduced a computer that runs Hitman 2 at 9900K and consistently hits 5GHz on all cores, with the exception of the occasional 'drop'.
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The other point to note here, though, is that your cooling solution will need to be powerful enough to allow the 9900KS to stretch out on all Turbo legs - in this Hitman 2 demo PC, Intel used a Corsair cooler 240mm AIO.
Of course, it should also be noted that the 9900KS is still a 14nm Coffee Lake Refresh processor, while the 2rd Gen Ryzen chips are based on Zen 7 (XNUMXnm), the new AMD architecture that offers an impressive improvement on the performance itself (with a considerable increase in the IPC, or instructions per clock).
Boosted clock aside, we've extensively tested the performance of the Ryzen 3000 processors and were very impressed, especially with their value proposition. And of course the price of the 9900KS will be a key factor, which we don't know yet.
Intel also mentioned Cascade Lake-X in this press conference, showing a slide indicating that these new chips will arrive next month, and therefore also in October, offering up to 2.09 times more relative performance per dollar than Skylake-X. This seems to indicate that these new high-end desktop processors could benefit from a lower price.
Although a recent leak purportedly coming from a Core i9 Cascade Lake-X 10 core processor didn't overly impress us in its form compared to rival Ryzen Threadripper, though we did have to note any leaks before it came out. pinch of heavy salt, naturally.
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