We still don't know when Intel's ninth-generation Core processors will be released, but what we do know is that they will have the highest frequencies of any Intel CPUs yet. The top Core i9 CPU, for example, will be capable of hitting 5GHz when boosted, across two cores.
Videocardz turfed up some pretty comprehensive information on the new range of Core CPUs from the 9th-gen, including core counts, thread counts, clock speeds across varied numbers of activated cores and thermal design profiles (TDP). The specifications for the new chips are as follows:
Core i5-9600K - Six cores, six threads, base clock of 3.7GHz that turbos to 4.6GHz on one core, 4.3GHz on six cores. 9MB of cache. TDP of 95w.
Core i7 9700K - Eight cores, eight threads, base clock of 3.6GHz, turbos to 4.9GHz on one core, 4.6GHz on eight cores. 12MB of cache. TDP of 95w.
Core i9-9900k - Eight cores, 16 threads, base clock of 3.6GHz, turbos to 5GHz on one core, 4.67GHz on eight cores. 16MB of cache. TDP of 95w.
Those are some seriously impressive specifications and represent an increase of a few hundred megahertz over the last-generation CPUs from Intel. The top-level i9 chip may well, with a little overclocking and some serious cooling, be capable of hitting 5GHz across all cores, but we'll need to wait for these chips to launch to find that out for sure.
At the very least, the next-gen should offer some serious competition for AMD's planned Zen 2 chips set to launch early next year.
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