Intel has announced that its 9th generation desktop CPUs will be available on October 19th. Unfortunately, the blue team did not release any gaming benchmarks though it claimed that the Intel Core i9 9900K will be the fastest gaming CPU available for purchase.
The Intel Core i9-9900K will be the big daddy, featuring 8 CPU cores and supporting 16 threads thanks to Hyper Threading. This model will feature 16MB of cache and will be clocked up to 5.0 GHz in single-core turbo mode.
The Intel Core i9-9900K will be soldered, will have integrated USB 3.1 Gen 2 and integrated Intel wireless-AC, will be compatible with all the Intel 300 series chipsets, and will support the Intel Optane memory which will benefit games as it aims to accelerate loading and launching the games you play the most.
Intel will also release the Intel Core i7-9700K and the Intel Core i5-9600K. The i7 9700K will be an 8cores/8threads chip whereas the i5 9600K will be a 6cores/6threads chip.
From the looks of it, this was a paper-launch event as there are n’t any third-party benchmarks for these new Intel CPUs. Our guess is that the embargo for the Intel i9/i7/i5 benchmarks will be lifted on October 19th; the same day that these chips will officially release!
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This is kind of OLD news John. You forgot to mention the PRICE of these new SKUs, because these aren’t going to sell cheap though.
Not taking into account the cost of the upcoming Intel Z390 chipset motherboards as well. By the way, for the flagship mode, 9900K, we can expect 5.0 GHz boost clock ‘both’ in single and dual core operations as well (with proper liquid cooling, obviously).
Another bummer/let-down is that we only get 16 PCI-e lanes for the CPU (a total of 40 platform PCIe lanes, (16 CPU + 24 PCH). This can be a detrimental factor for some builds.
These Coffee Lake series processors are just a ‘refresh’ of the existing architecture and as such, base of the core is also similar (as well as IPC). This Coffee Lake-S shares similar design elements found in the Kaby lake and Skylake architecture, but instead INTEL just scaled them upwards to 8-cores, fabbed on 14nm.
You missed others specs though (slightly based on speculation). These lack hyper-threading.
In terms of clock speeds, the i7-9700K chip has a base clock of 3.6 GHz, and boosts up to 4.9 GHz in single, or 4.8 GHz in dual-core, or 4.7 GHz in four core and 4.6 GHz in 6/8 core operations (12 MB of L3 cache).
4.6 GHz boost (1 core), 4.5 GHz (2 core), 4.4 GHz (4 core) and 4.3 GHz (6 core) for the 9600K, having 9 MB of L3 cache.
If I’m not mistaken, all these 9’th GEN CPUs might be having a soldered “Thermal Interface Material (STIM)”, and not just the flagship SKU. These new procs seem to be compatible with existing 300 series, and the new upcoming Z390 motherboard chipsets, but man these are expensive.
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so even the non K series will got soldered?
I don’t think INTEL plans to release non-K 9’th gen SKU variants this early, but with regards to TIM being soldered, I’m not 100% sure.
Right now i’m heavily considereing to go ryzen 2600 route. Though i do wonder if slower RAM speed (2400mhz) will have significant impact on it’s gaming performance.
Slower RAM does have some impact on Ryzen, but getting a higher clocked frequency RAM certainly helps, as evident from some gaming benchmarks.
Though, I don’t think 2400MHz is going to be a very huge limiting factor, but If you can grab a higher freq MEM kit, having reasonable CL timings as well, then it would be much better, if you are planning to build a rig based on Ryzen.
even 2400mhz kit can be quite pricey in my country let alone those with 3000mhz+ speed.
Yeah, I know that. DDR4 RAM prices are still all over the place. This really hurts though.
You’re probably right regarding the cpu having 16 pcie lanes.
What i don’t like at all in their “SKU TABLE” is that they say “Up to 40 pcie lanes” which is false, correct me if i’m wrong.
Lanes that are from the CPU, commonly called “PCIE LANES” are primarely used for GPUs so your gpu has 16x PCIE 3.0 Lanes. If you have extra, in the case of a 5930k (40lanes on CPU) it can go to M.2s or a second 16X PCIE 3.0 for a SLi or Xfire.There lies the problem. When they say “UP TO 40” it create confusion amongs user base. Why ? Because lanes coming from “PCH” are HSIO lanes and these lanes CANNOT be used for GPU because their maximum link is 4x. So when they say up to 40 lanes it’s non-sense because ONLY 16 of those are useable for graphics and the rest (24 lanes) are used for USB3.1/M.2/Sata/Ethernet whatever. It feels like they’re creating this mass confusion on purpose like WTF.
People need to know this. People need to understand that when they chose to go SLi/Xfire/whatever other plan that needs more than 1gpu@16x links.
Ugh…
Correct me if i’m wrong. This is my interpretation of CPU/PCH pcie lanes.
Yes, you are probably correct. There has been a lot of confusion when it comes to lanes, and sometimes the chart/info can mislead gamers.
HSIO lanes are mostly used for usb, sata or pcie etc. But like you said in this case, only 16 are usable for the GPU.
HSIO lanes can actually speak a variety of protocols, out of which the BIOS selects which protocol a specific HSIO lane is going to use, and then uses a bunch of ASMedia high speed multiplexers to wire up the lanes, for the said protocol ports (USB, SATA, M.2 slot, PCIe slot, etc).
But the GPU is mostly connected to the PEG PCIe controller inside the CPU that has 16 lanes.
With an appropriate motherboard/chipset the CPU’s PCIe controller can be split as x16x0x0, x8x8x0, x8x4x4 using PCIe Bifurcation (just an example), which is mostly controlled by the PCH.
It seems the physical lanes are again wired to the appropriate slots using ASMedia high speed multiplexer chips.
These new intel CPU’s will be still using software security patches (for meltdown and spectre) or they will be finally using some hardware fix that will not require any patches at all?
Nope, I think the HW hasn’t been fully changed. These will come with patches for BOTH spectre/meltdown though, because as you can see micro-code fixes are built-in, but there are no silicon changes:
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Thanks for the info
I just ordered an i5 8600k with a z370 mobo…I can easily return it in 14 days since it didnt arrive yet…would you recommend returning it and buying an i5 9600k or it’s not worth it ?
also i bought a new crucial mx500 500gb ssd and it pisses me off that spectre/meltdown will gimp my performance -.-
Nah, don’t return the i5 8600k build, and it’s not worth the money going for the 9600k as well, imo.
Or, you can buy one of the RYZEN CPUs, if you want AMD.
But apart from this, for GAMING, you don’t have to worry that much about the performance hit which comes with the Spectre and Meltdown patches, unless you are running VMs, a cloud server, or doing some other similar task, imo.
Most games are confined to the user space and don’t make frequent “kernel calls”, so the impact on some CPUs should be minor as well, but the “status” of these patches keeps on changing, so it’s kind of hard to predict what performance hit will actually happen in near future, IF any.
Honestly, I won’t worry too much about these Spectre and Meltdown patches, at least if GAMING is my sole purpose.
There have been reports that the new operating system patches aren’t affecting gaming workloads that much as well.
“”the “status” of these patches keeps on changing, so it’s kind of hard to predict what performance hit will actually happen in near future””
That’s what I fear, but also I have heard these software patches cant provide 100% protection. Buying new hardware with problems like that? I hoped by now Intel should fix these security problems but it looks like they didnt.
Thanks for taking time to answer my question…the “new” processors as well as z390 motherboards will be at a higher price for at least 2 months after the release in Croatia so waiting that out would be a bummer…and boy did i miss some great games since my latest build (2011 – HD6850 and i3 2100 :D).
Slight update:: Intel has released some new info.
It seems these 9th Gen Core i7/i9 processors do actually feature a number of hardware mitigations, as discovered by Anandtech/TPU.
Simply put, these procs are based on a NEW silicon design, and Intel has been able to implement at least the fixes for variant 3 (rogue data cache load), and L1 terminal fault on a hardware level.
These are some hardware fixes, just for meltdown, but not Spectre though.
The “Bounds Check Bypass” (Spectre’s Variant 1) will still need to be
mitigated by software for the time being.
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That’s always something. Thanks Metal Messiash
At this point people should go HEDT and get the I9-9800x. That’s what i’d do no doubt. 100$ more and you get a much better offer DEPENDING on what you’re going to do with the cpu.
i am still on 1st gen i7 i need a new rigs.. damn video cards and ram so expensive
I’m not even sure what to do. I don’t need super badly a new CPU, but its been 10 years… i do need an upgrade. Its hard to multitask and do videos with the I5 2500..
New intel vs last year intel? Intel vs Amd… or wait for next gen CPU next year.. gah, i gotta start reading reviews i guess..