F E A T U R E // T H E I N T E L 9 T H G E N E R A T I O N C O R E E X P E R I E N C E
The Intel 9th
Generation Core
Experience
H
ere we are again, another
milestone, another generation
and one more time where Intel
can rightfully claim to have made the
fastest desktop CPU in history.
Don’t look at this as a review, but
rather a celebration of the undisputed
desktop e
m e le de the Core
i9 9900K.
de te m it actually
about all three available 9th generation
Core CPUs
As always
e e , the light shines
brightest on the mightiest of them all,
the tel Core i9 9900K.
There’s not much technically I can
tell you about this CPU you’ve not
already read elsewhere. There isn’t
even much I can tell you about how this
CPU performs outside of the
benchmarks you’ve already seen and
the ones you’ll see here in the pages
that follow.
To say to you that this particular CPU
and perhaps this generation offers the
highest performance levels for gaming
and mainstream computing needs
would be wasteful. The 8th generation
Core CPUs were providing that already
and so too did the 7th generation Core
CPUs.
To only focus on that and evaluate the
CPUs based purely on this would be a
waste I believe. Regardless of how
consumers, media or anyone else may
feel about these CPUs, the reality is
that these are complex pieces of silicon
and what we have today is new. Be it
10% or 100% new, we are where we
have never been before and that alone
is e iti .
Since this is TheOverclocker,
our primary concern with this new
generation of CPUs is the overclocking
credentials. In as far as that is
concerned, these CPUs have the
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minerals to go the distance with the
best of them and e in fact better
at this than any i generation
tel
.
Something one reads on forums,
message boards and of course in
the comments section of YouTube
videos is that the 2nd generation
Core CPUs based on the
Sandy Bridge
ite t e
were the best
overclockers. I’m not
of that mind, even
though I will admit and
concede that they
were much easier
to overclock than any
family of CPUs before
and after.
However,
overclocking isn’t
just a high CPU
internal clock, it is
tied to performance
inherently. Simply
having a high clock while
impressive wouldn’t be
much of a competition, as
it’s literally a CPU-Z validation. After
all, even the highest CPU frequency
recorded on HWBOT is over 8GHz and
that came about m y years ago. The
CPU which achieved that was anything
but performant hat 8GHz even if it
were by some magic operational
e
t le
e y would deliver
the computational power of
a 4GHz modern day CPU i
t le ,
especially if you are talking about the
9th generation Co e
.
So what we or rather I am interested
in is not just high clock frequencies but
performance at those frequencies as
well and this is where the 9th