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: Integrated Graphics
Despite being the ultimate joke at any bring-your-own-computer event, gaming on integrated graphics can ultimately be as rewarding as the latest mega-rig that costs the same as a car. The desire for strong integrated graphics in various shapes and sizes has waxed and waned over the years, with Intel relying on its latest ‘Gen’ graphics architecture while AMD happily puts its Vega architecture into the market to swallow up all the low-end graphics card sales. With Intel poised to make an attack on graphics in the next few years, it will be interesting to see how the graphics market develops, especially integrated graphics.
For our integrated graphics testing, we take our ‘IGP’ category settings for each game and loop the benchmark round for five minutes a piece, taking as much data as we can from our automated setup.
Finally, looking at integrated graphics performance, I don’t believe anyone should be surprised here. Intel has not meaningfully changed their iGPU since Kaby Lake – the microarchitecture is the same and the peak GPU frequency has risen by all of 50MHz to 1200MHz – so Intel’s iGPU results have essentially been stagnant for the last couple of years at the top desktop segment.
To that end I don’t think there’s much new to say. Intel’s GT2 iGPU struggles even at 720p in some of these games; it’s not an incapable iGPU, but there’s sometimes a large gulf between it and what these games (which are multi-platform console ports) expect for minimum GPU performance. The end result is that if you’re serious about iGPU performance in your desktop CPU, then AMD’s APUs provide much better performance. That said, if you are forced to game on the 9900K’s iGPU, then at least the staples of the eSports world such as World of Tanks will run quite well.
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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...