The Intel 9th Gen Review: Core i9-9900K, Core i7-9700K and Core i5-9600K Tested
by Ian Cutress on October 19, 2018 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- Intel
- Coffee Lake
- 14++
- Core 9th Gen
- Core-S
- i9-9900K
- i7-9700K
- i5-9600K
Gaming: Far Cry 5
The latest title in Ubisoft's Far Cry series lands us right into the unwelcoming arms of an armed militant cult in Montana, one of the many middles-of-nowhere in the United States. With a charismatic and enigmatic adversary, gorgeous landscapes of the northwestern American flavor, and lots of violence, it is classic Far Cry fare. Graphically intensive in an open-world environment, the game mixes in action and exploration.
Far Cry 5 does support Vega-centric features with Rapid Packed Math and Shader Intrinsics. Far Cry 5 also supports HDR (HDR10, scRGB, and FreeSync 2). We use the in-game benchmark for our data, and report the average/minimum frame rates.
| AnandTech CPU Gaming 2019 Game List | ||||||||
| Game | Genre | Release Date | API | IGP | Low | Med | High | |
| Far Cry 5 | FPS | Mar 2018 |
DX11 | 720p Low |
1080p Normal |
1440p High |
4K Ultra |
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
| Far Cry 5 | IGP | Low | High |
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Far Cry 5 is another game that at reasonable 1080p settings actually shows some CPU differentiation. To really drive a wedge between the CPUs we do need to drop to 720p Low, but still, in both cases the 9900K comes out on top. And in this case the performance gap between it and the 8700K is actually a bit larger than normal at 12%. Still, this is a game that’s if it’s not GPU-bound is closer to being bounded by a limited number of threads, so the lack of major clockspeed gains for the 9900K keep it from pulling too far ahead. It also keeps the 9700K from falling too far behind.
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0ldman79 - Friday, October 19, 2018 - link
AMD needs to improve their AVX processing as well, but they've got Intel in a bit of a predicament.Hifihedgehog - Friday, October 19, 2018 - link
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you...Intel’s FX 9000 series.
Now even hotter and more power hungry than ever!
mapesdhs - Sunday, October 21, 2018 - link
It reminds me a lot of the P4 days when Intel just had to shove clocks through the roof to remain relevant. And I don't know why tech sites are salivating so much on oc levels that are barely any better than a chip's max turbo, it's a far cry from the days of SB, especially since one can run a 2700K at 5GHz with sensible voltage and good temps using a simple air cooler (ordinary TRUE works fine) and one fan, without high noise (I know, I've built seven of them so far). To me, the oc'ing potential of the 9K series is just boring, especially since the cost is so high that for gaming one is far better off buying a 2700X, 8700K (or many other options) and using the save to get a better GPU.sgeocla - Friday, October 19, 2018 - link
Why compare to the TR 1920x ($799) and not to the TR 2950X ($899)?The TR 2950X kills it in almost every productivity benchmark even against i-9 9900k.
Not even mentioning the 9th gen power consumption.
Yorgos - Friday, October 19, 2018 - link
don't bother with the review.They show you the results that makes intel seem good.
Intel/Purch media have failed to show to the people that they exceed even Threadripper's TDP in order to fight Zen.
Desperate moves for desperate times.
Better look somewhere else for an unbiased review.
mkaibear - Friday, October 19, 2018 - link
What, you mean apart from page 21 where it shows that it almost doubles Threadripper's TDP for the same core count CPU and is 50% greater than the one which has 50% more cores than it does?Some reading comprehension lessons needed I think.
yeeeeman - Friday, October 19, 2018 - link
The 9900K looks like a nice CPU, but damn that power consumption is stupidly high. It is almost twice what the 2700X consumes.Hifihedgehog - Friday, October 19, 2018 - link
*High-end AIO required.AGS3 - Friday, October 19, 2018 - link
Twice the CPU - 8 cores over 5Ghz :)AutomaticTaco - Saturday, October 20, 2018 - link
Revised down. The first motherboard they used was extremely higher voltage settings.https://www.anandtech.com/show/13400/intel-9th-gen...