Intel officially announces 9th generation Core CPUs
 

Including the 8-core Core i9-9900K

At its special event "Fall Desktop Launch Event" in New York City, Intel has officially unveiled its new 9th Generation Core CPUs, the six-core Core i5-9600K, eight-core Core i7-9700K, and the flagship eight-core Core i9-9900K. Intel also unveiled the new Z390 chipset, a minor update to the Z370.

Still pretty much based on the original Skylake architecture (third Skylake refresh if you keep count(, or as Intel calls it, the Coffee Lake Refresh, the new 9th Generation Core CPUs are still built on 14nm manufacturing process, but bring a couple of changes mostly in number of cores, clocks and L3 cache amount.

While the 8th generation Core flagship, the Core i7-8700K (and the anniversary Core i7-8086K), stuck to six-cores and twelve threads, Intel has now upped the core game, pushing its flagship Core i9-9900K to eight-cores with a total of sixteen threads. It still retains the 95W TDP, works at 3.6GHz base and 5.0GHz Turbo clock, and has 2MB of L2 per core (for a total of 16MB).

While the Core i9-9900K got a significant boost, the Core i7-9700K is a bit of letdown, as Intel has decided to keep the Hyper-Threading limited its flagship Core i9 series, so the Core i7-9700K will eight-cores and eight threads, have the same 95W TDP, 3.6GHz base and 4.9GHz Turbo clock, and 12MB of L3 cache.

The Core i5-9600K is a six-core SKU, also without Hyper-Threading, same 95W TDP, 3.7GHz base and 4.6GHz Turbo clock and 9MB of L3 cache.

All three 9th generation Core SKUs support 2666MHz DDR4 memory and come with the same GT2 integrated graphics as the Intel's 8th generation, with 24 EUs and maximum GPU clock of up to 1200MHz (1150MHz for the Core i5-9600K). It will still be named as the UHD Graphics 630.

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