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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mkaibear - Sunday, October 28, 2018 - link
Yes. Because MSRP is set by the manufacturer and the retail price is set by the retailer. And otherwise they'd have to update the article every single time a price changes.Outlander_04 - Saturday, October 20, 2018 - link
So not value for money, definitely not value for money for gamers, and TWO HUNDRED AND TEN INSANE WATTS OF POWER DRAW.Funniest thing I have heard for a while now
Tkan2155 - Saturday, October 20, 2018 - link
No way im getting this 180 watts. 7nm will help to save energy. Amd need to take down intel. Lets do it together. I cannot stand intel anymore.AutomaticTaco - Saturday, October 20, 2018 - link
Revised power consumption. First motherboard was over-voltage.https://www.anandtech.com/show/13400/intel-9th-gen...
Also, when Overclocked, and set to 1.075v for CPU the consumption actually dropped to 127W max.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13400/intel-9th-gen...
WannaBeOCer - Saturday, October 20, 2018 - link
Can you post power consumption with MCE Off? The 9900K is a 4.3GHz processor not a 4.7GHz. MCE Auto on Asus boards boost the CPU to 4.7GHz on all 8 cores.mapesdhs - Sunday, October 21, 2018 - link
I remember there was much debate a year or so ago about that, but the whole issue seems to have faded away.Synomenon - Saturday, October 20, 2018 - link
Will the "Thermalright TRUE Spirit 120M BW Rev.A" with push / pull fans be enough to cool the 9900K?http://thermalright.com/product/true-spirit-120m-b...
mapesdhs - Sunday, October 21, 2018 - link
At stock, maybe. Oc'd, almost certainly not.daxpax - Saturday, October 20, 2018 - link
funny there's not 2700x included in benchmarks where AMD has advantage. clearly intel sponsored articlekaosou - Saturday, October 20, 2018 - link
I have a bit of a problem with the price you put on all the charts for ThreadRipper 1920X, at the time the article is posted, you can find TR 1920X at around USD 400, and the USD 799 price you put in the chart is very misleading.