all right well here we are again guys with yet another refresh of sky lake and
the script for this one which uh well there we go they've helpfully included
in the box here is uh pretty much the same as last time
with uh there we go
so let's see here we got more cores
and um we got some more cash to go with
them and uh
really is that it no new process node no
avx 512 support and uh wait
i can't even believe this we're still using the same gt2 graphics engine with
the same number of execution units at the same clocks
but is it possible that there's
more than meets the eye
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let's start with some good news shall we Intel has finally caved to the pressure
or made the decision on their own using whatever moon logic that they use and
soldered the ihs to the die which should
mean that we won't need to keep delitting our cpus in order to get
decent thermals out of them though i'm not not promising that i won't do that
anyway what do you think pella should i do it should i risk a thousand dollar
processor and you only live once right this is it but
our delicious soldered cheeseburger also comes with a side of vomit milkshake
because for the first time that i can remember we are actually
losing hyper threading and some of the
cash per core on the 9th gen core i7
in fact for now nothing but the new eight core core i9
9900k includes hyper threading technology
so Intel doesn't screw me over here because
my core i3 i5 i7 explainer is now
inaccurate just weeks before it would have hit 10 million views
so way to go guys thanks a lot
the hardware mitigations for spectre and meltdown do make me feel a little bit
better though these should take over from some of the software and firmware
fixes which again this is a big should restore some extra performance per core
speaking of firmware we've actually got a new chipset on our hands
except that it's basically what we think the z370 chipset should have been in the
first place with the only added features being usb 3.1 gen 2 support and
integrated wi-fi via what Intel calls integrated connectivity or
the snv for short
oh sorry just kind of an aside here do you guys remember when Intel had
simple memorable marketing like
and centrino who the hell is in charge over there
right now i mean even the core i3 i5 i7
nonsense was less confusing than this hot mess and at least 10 million people
need i remind you didn't understand that
on the plus side at least both the 9th gen chips and boards are backwards
compatible with 8th gen gear and vice versa bringing us then to the elephant
in the room more cores it seems Intel has finally had enough of
AMD lording ryzen's eight cores over them and here we have not one but two
Intel core series cpus with eight cores
but with that said they haven't yet tired of AMD lording their more
aggressive pricing over them because for a 16 thread processor you will be paying
a nearly 40 premium to get a blue case
badge making the cheaper eight thread core i7
possibly a much easier pill to swallow at least we think so because Intel in
their infinite wisdom isn't sampling that chip yet so we were forced to pull
a little trick out of our hats that we've used before so in our graphs
you're going to see performance numbers for the 9900k the core i9
then you're going to see performance numbers for that same chip with its
hyper threading disabled and its maximum 2 core boost adjusted to 4.9 gigahertz
we're going to be labeling these results core i7 9700k
fingerprints because from our experience in the past these results should be very
close to the real chip but they aren't the real chick so
hence the fingerprints all right here we go
right away we can see that Intel's pr and marketing departments got at least
one thing right over the last couple of scandal-plagued weeks this CPU is
absolutely the best CPU in the world for gaming it's faster than the 8700k which
pretty much qualifies it right there but the difference here is relatively minor
a few FPS here and there and what's weird is that it seems to be struggling
with directx 12 right now as expected the extra cores aren't doing
us any favors in current gaming titles and we're pretty much relying on the
extra 300 megahertz on the boost clock for our performance gains just like with
the 8700k when it first launched it should be noted however that the rtx
builds of games like battlefield 5 should take advantage of more cores so
maybe we will see a bigger difference there whenever those builds show up
moving on to productivity it's here that we see the biggest improvements over the
8th gen flagship and thanks to the extra
clock speed the 9900k even manages to
eclipse the more expensive core i7 7820x
on Intel's high-end x299 platform
that even extends to avx-512 enabled workloads like blender where
traditionally Intel's high-end desktop chips dominate on a per core basis
what's even more exciting for streamers is that x264 performance is
significantly improved here with the new core i9 landing striking distance from
the 7900x whose msrp is nearly double so the 9900k
is looking pretty good so far and if you've been paying attention to the
graphs you'll probably also have noticed that our simulated core i7 9700k
is also holding up well typically outperforming the 8700k that
it replaces making the loss of hyper threading confusing
but less of a big deal from a performance standpoint than you might have expected
and there's more to be happy about too thanks to the soldered ihs the core i9
9900k actually enjoys better thermals
than the 8700k from last generation even
under full load and sustained power consumption is actually down as well
that's especially good news compared to the relatively power hungry 7820x
but and it's a big but
we haven't addressed the price tag yet at 30 to 40 percent more than the core
i7 8700k and ryzen 7 2700x from AMD
Intel's eight core 16 thread consumer chip is in a price bracket all on its
lonesome somewhere in the no-man's land between the consumer and the high-end
desktop markets which means that gamers are going to do a double take and anyone
building a budget workstation is going to be forced to choose between per
thread performance and memory bandwidth and pci express lanes because z390
doesn't add quad channel memory or more PCIe lanes unfortunately now that we
have real performance numbers instead of the
bunged up ones that Intel either through blatant malice or stunning ineptitude
showed off before the launch where are we left here
thanks to its bloated 490 price tag with
limited availability potentially pushing that higher the core i9 9900k ends up
looking less compelling to us than Intel's own
core i7 9700k and this whole launch in general doesn't
look like it's going to woo over too many pure gamers from cheaper
lower core count options even from Intel's own lineup
then for the streamers out there who are looking to upgrade honestly we'd
probably recommend an rtx GPU for its
stellar hardware h.264 encoder instead
as for the non-gamers AMD is still fighting this battle from a
position of strength ryzen still gives you more course per dollar it includes
ecc support if that's important to you and it even brings more pci express
lanes to the table but
if gaming is just one of the things you do and you want the best of both worlds
at least Intel has some response now to the fantastic performance of the r7
2700x in non-gaming applications i mean
there is something to be said for getting to the end of your shift and
firing up csgo at over 500 frames per second
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