Core i9-9900K benchmarks see it slaying the competition

Intel's upcoming Core i9-9900K benchmarks tease an ABSOLUTE BEAST.

@anthony256

Published Jul 30, 2018 7:36 PM CDT
Updated Nov 3, 2020 11:51 AM CST

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Intel is oh-so-close to the release of its new 9th-gen CPUs with the flagship Core i9-9900K to arrive as a huge new, and a first for the company 8C/16T consumer CPU at up to 5GHz... but just how fast will this beast be?

Core i9-9900K benchmarks see it slaying the competition | TweakTown.com

According to a new leaked benchmark in 3DMark, we can indeed expect an 8C/16T processor at 5GHz, with 16MB of L3 cache, 95W TDP, and built-in Intel UHD 620 graphics. As for the raw horsepower, we should expect 3DMark Time Spy scores of 10719 for the CPU, and 9862 overall.

All of this was run on an ASUS ROG Strix Z370-F motherboard, 16GB of G.SKILL DDR4-2666 RAM, a 500GB Samsung 960 EVO SSD, and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card. If we compare the score against AMD's new Ryzen 7 2700X (8C/16T as well) the 9900K beats its score of 9387, and even shatters Intel's current-gen Core i7-8700K (6C/12T) with 8935.

We should expect news and an official release of the Core i9-9900K in the coming weeks.

Anthony Garreffa

Anthony joined the TweakTown team in 2010 and has since reviewed 100s of graphics cards. Anthony is a long time PC enthusiast with a passion of hate for games built around consoles. FPS gaming since the pre-Quake days, where you were insulted if you used a mouse to aim, he has been addicted to gaming and hardware ever since. Working in IT retail for 10 years gave him great experience with custom-built PCs. His addiction to GPU tech is unwavering and has recently taken a keen interest in artificial intelligence (AI) hardware.