Intel Core i9-9900K, i7-9700K and i5-9600K in review – Hot tightrope walk between overtaking and braking lane

1 - Einführung und Architektur 2 - Security Patches, Testsystem 3 - Synthetische Tests 4 - AotS: Escalation, Civilization, DoW III 5 - Far Cry 5, GTA V, Hitman 6 - Shadow of War, Project Cars 2 7 - Office- und Browser-Benchmarks 8 - Adobe Creative Cloud 9 - Encoding und Kompression 10 - Workstation 2D/3D Grafik 11 - Workstation Compute/Rendering 12 - Temperaturen und Kühlung 13 - Leistungsaufnahme 14 - Zusammenfassung

Actually, we have even tested three processors in places, but not in all areas due to a lack of vergability. Since we therefore lack the power consumption values, temperatures and some benchmarks, I can only judge the Core i9-9900K in a conclusive way from here. I ask for your understanding.

Just as Intel has shown us as editors with perfectly celebrated denial worldwide and even keeps our own motherboard partners with samples more than just short, just as one probably wants to understand this CPU. Welcome to the club for the willing to pay and off to the basement with the critics. In addition, a few purchased and rarely stupidly realized "pre-tests" including highly timed Influenzer cinema and the marketing is finished.

Summary and conclusion

The Core i9-9900K is already a really hot CPU, which Intel puts us on the shelves. In the truest sense of the word. But it is better to limit us to the specific target group that Intel is targeting in the first place. Well cooled and equipped with the appropriate motherboard, these 8 cores (or 16 threads) can certainly provide some pleasure. And it was also a certain limit experience for me as a tester not planned by Intel.

But, of course, the question arises: who really needs this? A few noble gamers and benchmark worshippers will probably enter the dance around the Golden Calf jubilantly, even if the tickets for it are badly peppered and completely salted or priced. it will probably still be. To get me right: It's a great piece of silicon, which should also have museum value as a collector's item at the same time, because at 14nm structure width, it is certainly reaching the limit of what the core architecture is currently doing. is capable of There is simply no more.

But the whole great performance is expensively bought, because if you really follow the temptation to shoot this CPU on the 5 GHz, you should cool the wall around the socket right away. However, if you leave it on the 4.7 GHz ex works with a partial turbo up to 5 GHz and give the noble carrier a clever cooler, then the mail goes off. An "old" Core i7-8700K at the same time (which almost every housewife gets today) is often just as fast.

The two cores more will not be felt at all, except for real multi-core optimized applications. Adjusted for clockwork, a gamer with a Core i7-8700K or quite often even with the Core i5-8600K is usually on the move just as fast. Apart from the fact that in the red corner you get even more seeds for the money, if you are more likely to stand on core fruit.

What I mean by this is that for a lot less money you are already offered enough power away from this CPU, which then also meets the user profile. And workstations generally use different hardware anyway. This also applies to memory, as the new eight-cores could be used to control twice as much RAM, i.e. four DIM modules each with 32 GB of capacity, which would now mean 128 GB instead of 64 GB.

But these "unbuffered" DIMMs (UDIMMs) with 32 GB (and 16 built-in 16-GBit-DDR4-SDRAMs) are not yet available! The fact that Intel even reserves the right to validate and release such modules certainly does not need to be commented on. Memory unlock, RTX On and Off – what kind of world do we actually live in, where features are already sold expensively, which (yet) no one can use?

With AMD you get 8 cores almost as a folk CPU, so of course you have to follow up with Intel at some point. But as beautiful as that is with the high bar, the side effects are so beautifully unreasonable. Everything is bought far too expensively, both technologically, in terms of cooling and at the counter. A purchase recommendation on my part would therefore also be pure cynicism.

Once again – I take my hat off to so much clenched cargo in a suit that has become far too small. But for the general public, this is nothing more than a nice visual object and for my chiller a fat prey.