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8 Cores, 8 Threads @3.6GHz, Coffee Lake.
Release date: Q4 2018.

8 Cores, 16 Threads.
Release date ≈ Q3 2017.

Real World Speed
Performance profile from 557,904 user samples
550,833 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 105% Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 5.2 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 82% Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 0.8 GHz (avg)
Poor: 82% Great: 105%
SPEED RANK: 115th / 1468
Gaming
Gaming 97%
Nuclear submarine
Desktop
Desktop 97%
Nuclear submarine
Workstation
Workstation 89%
Aircraft carrier
7,071 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 87% Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 65% Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 0.55 GHz (avg)
Poor: 65% Great: 87%
SPEED RANK: 309th / 1468
Gaming
Gaming 76%
Battleship
Desktop
Desktop 77%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 77%
Battleship
Effective Speed
Effective CPU Speed
96.9 % Faster effective speed.
+27%
76.3 %
Memory
Avg. Memory Latency
90.9 Pts Much lower memory latency.
+33%
68.2 Pts
1-Core
Avg. Single Core Speed
140 Pts Faster single-core speed.
+17%
120 Pts
2-Core
Avg. Dual Core Speed
279 Pts Faster dual-core speed.
+19%
235 Pts
4-Core
Avg. Quad Core Speed
552 Pts Faster quad-core speed.
+22%
452 Pts
8-Core
Avg. Octa Core Speed
964 Pts Faster octa-core speed.
+23%
782 Pts
Memory
OC Memory Latency
96.6 Pts Lower OC memory latency.
+15%
83.8 Pts
1-Core
OC Single Core Speed
155 Pts Faster OC single-core speed.
+21%
128 Pts
2-Core
OC Dual Core Speed
309 Pts Faster OC dual-core speed.
+22%
254 Pts
4-Core
OC Quad Core Speed
618 Pts Faster OC quad-core speed.
+24%
500 Pts
8-Core
OC Octa Core Speed
1,123 Pts Faster OC octa-core speed.
+19%
947 Pts
Market Share
Based on 69,000,321 CPUs tested
Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days)
1.94 % Insanely higher market share.
+6,367%
0.03 %
Value
Value For Money
101 % 103 % +2%
User Rating
UBM User Rating
92 % Much more popular.
+53%
60 %
Price
Price (score)
$240 $94 Much cheaper.
+61%
Age
Newest
72 Months More recent.
+16%
86+ Months
64-Core
OC Multi Core Speed
1,145 Pts 1,315 Pts Faster OC 64-core speed.
+15%
64-Core
Avg. Multi Core Speed
1,001 Pts 1,200 Pts Faster 64-core speed.
+20%

Intel’s Core i7-9700K is an unlocked 9th generation Coffee Lake CPU. It is an 8 core, 8 thread processor. The 9700K features 12 MB of cache, a 95W TDP and Intel UHD 630 graphics. Like the other 9th generation chips, it is compatible with Intel’s new Z390 chipset as well as last years Z370 chipset (with an updated BIOS). The 9700K has stock base / boost clocks of 3.6 / 4.6 GHz and a single core boost of 4.9 GHz (compared to 3.6, 4.7 and 5.0 GHz for the flagship 9900K). This translates to almost identical single, quad and octa core performance between the 9900K and 9700K. Mainstream PC games do not benefit from more than six threads, so at $350 (25% cheaper than the 9900K), the 9700K offers far better value for money to gamers. That said gamers have very little reason not to consider the i5-9600K which, when overclocked, offers almost equivalent performance at a 35% discount[Oct '18 CPUPro]

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The 8 core, 16 thread 1900X is the third and entry-level processor from AMD’s Threadripper series of high-end desktop (HEDT) processors. The 1900X is based on AMD’s 14nm Zen architecture and features 20MB of cache (16MB of which is L3) and quad channel DDR4, which is twice as many channels as in the Ryzen 7 series. It has a base clock of 3.8GHz increasing to a boost of 4.0 GHz and has an additional short-term boost of 0.2 GHz when thermals allow. Most impressively, the 1900X features 64 PCIe lanes which is the same of number of lanes in the nearly twice as expensive Ryzen Threadripper flagship, the 1950X. This facilitates the simultaneous high speed PCIe connection of up to seven different graphics or storage peripherals. By comparison, Intel’s similarly priced 8 core, 16 thread i7-7820X which, even though it has an 11% effective speed advantage over the 1900X, only has 28 PCIe lanes (down from 44 lanes as recently seen in the recent i9-7900X). Both upgrade options may require new, and not inexpensive motherboards, the 7820X requires an X299 (Basin Falls) chipset and the 1900X utilizes the premium X399 motherboard. Despite the considerable price tags attached to the CPUs and motherboards, never before has HEDT processing been so affordable. [Oct '17 CPUPro]

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