It appears that the first gaming benchmarks for the Intel Core i9-9900KS have surfaced online. The Intel Core i9-9900KS is basically an overclocked 9900K desktop processor and as you may have guessed, it performs similarly to it.
Tomshardware got its hands on this upcoming CPU and benchmarked it in six games. The CPU performed within expectations, though there were some minor performance improvements over the 9900K model.
Intel has not officially revealed yet the price for this CPU. In my opinion, the best option for Intel is to retire the previous 9900K model and start offering the 9900KS at the very same price. Otherwise, we don’t believe there is any meaningful reason to get this over the 9900K mode.
Going into more details, the performance difference between the 9900KS and the 9900K in Ashes of the Singularity is below 1fps. In Far Cry 5, a game that relies heavily one a single CPU thread, the performance difference is 5fps. In Final Fantasy XV the performance difference is 3fps and in GTA 5 the performance difference is 5fps. Lastly, both Project Cars 2 and World of Tanks run around 10fps better/faster on the i9 9900KS.
Kudos to our reader Metal Messiah for bringing this to our attention!
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1% gains. Woot?
well what did you think it would happen??? OC the regular 9900k to 5.2 ghz and they will be the same
I was pointing out how trivial this new products was.
it really is
Excellent performance.
no sh.t sherlock
dude it is the same as the user OC 9900k..lol
Dont be hard on him hes desabled
nibba pls .
-+65% of ppl play on 1080p
I really don’t know how they do it, it’s so blurry.
The same people who buy a 9900KS only have a 1080p monitor?
Patiently waiting for Ryzen 9 3950X.
Having x299 platform and even when taking into consideration 2x performance / w increase (of course all of this “performance increase” comes from 50% price drop !!!) on i9-10XXX series (looking at i9-10980XE) I’m still considering AMD.
Funny how things change.
Four / five years ago, when switching from AMD to Intel i7-4770, I even didn’t considered AMD.
Over two years ago when moving to HEDT I was interested in Threadripper but due to high latency issue and platform immaturity went with Intel (and yes, I do regret it !).
Today I’m practical ignoring Intel and waiting for what AMD has to offer. Assuming that AMD leaks are correct then their main stream offer practically kills Intel HEDT.
Disclaimer: I’m considering MT workloads more important then ST. Gaming is secondary use case for me.
If gaming is secondary…in terms of productivity and other MT workloads…AMD is practically killing high-end Intel already! ONLY in gaming Intel is still considerably ahead due to its higher clock speeds that most games tend to favor over better architecture, ie, more taw power over efficient/advance arch design.
Exactly this. A ryzen 3600 is all you need if you’re not stuck in 2013.
Still waiting for a reason to upgrade my 3770k. I thought I’d jump on Ryzen at launch, but maybe I’ll just hang on for the 4th gen.
“there were some minor performance improvements over the 9900K model”
Imagine my shock.
My k will be a year old in December, but it took 2 exchanges and quite a bit of t&e to get it to run stable at 5.3×8/16. I have yet to regret it though, watching people wait and debate over all the hype of both AMD and Intel this past year just makes me smile. I figure I got another year or two before I’ll have to consider something new.
One thing I forgot to mention is that Intel has added new hardware-level mitigations for many of the new vulnerabilities, like MSBDS, Fallout, Meltdown etc, with new steppings on it’s die.
This new Core i9-9900KS processor comes with the R0 stepping (Stepping 13), whereas the 9900K model has P0 stepping.
These so-called “silicon” fixes have been rumored to have some slight/minor impact on IPC as well.
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Looking forward to the Comet Lake deca-core.
I’m going to get it.
5 fps is 5 fps after all.