Intel’s 9th Gen Core i9 9900K; The Fastest Gaming Processor Ever

Intel, the 800-pound gorilla of the processor world, is back with a substantially higher clock speedCore X microprocessors lineup, including the $263 Core i5-9600K, the $385 Core i7-9700K and the $499 Core i9-9900K. The new processor chip is high at performance, providing new levels for the power users and the gamers. The chips are considerably powerful than the AMD’s Ryzen 7 2700X, and the Core i9-9900K is the fastest of them all.

The Coffee Lake architecture based processor has the Base Frequency (GHz) of 3.6, and the Boost Frequency (Active Cores – GHz) of 1-2 Cores – 5.0, 4 Cores – 4.8, and 8 Cores – 4.7. It is using the Solder Thermal Interface Material (STIM), to facilitate the better thermal transfer, on the Core i9 and i7 models without disrupting a 95W cover at base clock rates. The processor has the eight Hyper-Threaded cores (8C/16T) and comes with better frame rates.

The Core i9-9900K has been manufactured on the Intel’s 14nm++ node and supports the dual-channel DDR4-2666 memory. The chip is integrated with the UHD 630 graphics engine and provides with the facility to double the memory capacity support to increase the RAM density up to 128 GB. It consists of the Dual-Channel Memory Controller and x16 PCIe Lanes. The processor is accompanied by two additional 2MB slices of L3 cache.

The processor is considered to be providing the best performance than its contemporaries, especially to play games on the 4K or HDR. But, the extra frames offered with it are not making much of the difference comparing to the 8th Gen processor, and are not worth spending this much money. The chip has introduced various features against its competitor AMD, but still the processor is at a higher price.