The Intel Core i9-9900KS Review: The 5 GHz Consumer Special
by Dr. Ian Cutress on October 31, 2019 10:45 AM ESTGaming: F1 2018
Aside from keeping up-to-date on the Formula One world, F1 2017 added HDR support, which F1 2018 has maintained; otherwise, we should see any newer versions of Codemasters' EGO engine find its way into F1. Graphically demanding in its own right, F1 2018 keeps a useful racing-type graphics workload in our benchmarks.
We use the in-game benchmark, set to run on the Montreal track in the wet, driving as Lewis Hamilton from last place on the grid. Data is taken over a one-lap race.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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Supercell99 - Thursday, October 31, 2019 - link
Yea you are not going to be able to OC a 9900K much. They have panned through all the 9900 goldJorgp2 - Thursday, October 31, 2019 - link
This is a new stepping.TEAMSWITCHER - Thursday, October 31, 2019 - link
The time to hop on the 9900K train was at the introduction.. Now just wait for Comet Lake.AshlayW - Friday, November 1, 2019 - link
Or be a smart consumer and wait for 3900X to be back in stock :)Sivar - Friday, November 1, 2019 - link
Most PC users make better use of fast cores than more cores.GreenReaper - Friday, November 1, 2019 - link
Historically this has been very true. However browsers nowadays can take advantage of many cores, as can games - they have been forced to, or else be outcompeted by those who do.Kjella - Thursday, October 31, 2019 - link
Considering it's a brief holiday special I would think this is all the golden samples from the past year. I'm quite sure they all pre-bin and keep chips that are "perfect" in some way like no defects/high frequency/ultra low voltage even though they don't have an SKU for it yet. Normally they'd launch one notch up as a 9950K or something, with this time limited special I guess Intel is saying we'll never produce these chips in enough volume to justify that so we're doing a limited edition for PR instead.Spunjji - Friday, November 1, 2019 - link
Nailed it.GreenReaper - Saturday, November 2, 2019 - link
They keep the duds, too. That's one reason the Pentium and Celeron come out later. The other being they don't want to spoil the market for higher-end chips.DigitalFreak - Thursday, October 31, 2019 - link
Once you cut through all the Intel marketing BS, to run all cores at 5Ghz as advertised it's a 172W processor.