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8th Gen Intel Core S-series Die

Update: Sharp-eyed readers confirmed something I'd missed — Intel's slides do notation that 9th Generation CPUs are protected at the same level as Intel's Whiskey Lake. Original story beneath.

Afterward months of leaks, Intel is finally taking the lid off its 9th Generation CPU family unit. The new series of CPUs makes some significant changes to Intel's overall product line, with a new line-up of Core i5, Cadre i7, and Core i9 CPUs, with different capabilities and clocks to previous iterations of these chips. And, every bit expected, Hyper-Threading is going away from all only the Core i9.

The Core i9-9900K will be a 5GHz CPU with a iii.6GHz base clock, 8 cores, xvi threads, two memory channels rated for DDR4-2666, 16MB of L3 (2MB per core) and a $488 list price. The Cadre i7-9700K is an viii-cadre / 8-thread CPU, with a 3.6GHz base clock and 4.9GHz Turbo, with just 12MB of L3 (1.5MB per core) for $374, while the Core i5-9600K is a six-core / six-thread fleck with a 3.7GHz base clock, iv.6GHz Turbo, and the same 12MB of L3 (one.5MB per core) for $295. Anandtech managed to get their easily on the Turbo frequencies (Intel no longer gives out this information publicly) as shown below:

9thGenTurbos

This gives the Core i9-9900K an all-core boost of four.7GHz, which should requite that flake a nice nudge over all previous CPUs in the family. And all the fries in question take soldered TIMs, including the Core i5-9600K, which should requite overclockers a slightly larger chance at hitting frequency targets.

At that place'southward no update for the GPU, which means Intel is still in a property blueprint, effectively, since Broadwell. The company has dropped the references to its 14nm, 14nm+, and 14nm++ hardware and is at present referring to all of these parts collectively as representing a 14nm "class" of hardware.

Meanwhile, Intel's 14nm has reportedly become the most assisting line of hardware the company has ever manufactured, though that'due south likely in part due to the necessity of using it every bit long as Intel has. When you normally cycle your bleeding-edge equipment through to new nodes every two years, in that location'due south non much time for equipment to build upwardly those kinds of profitability figures. 14nm should have been replaced past 2022 at the latest; the fact that Intel volition still be shipping it in 2022 every bit a leading-edge node is likely responsible for the node's splendid functioning.

Anandtech doesn't believe at that place are any new security fixes coming in these new desktop chips, implying they'll lack the security fixes that debuted with Whiskey Lake. Dropping Hyper-Threading could exist a nod towards improving security on its processors related to Spectre and Meltdown, or it could have been an adjustment to better product partition to create a larger gap between the Cadre i7 and Core i9 families. The reduction in L3 cache could also be a nod to this, or a desire to reduce the manufacturing cost of the Cadre i5 and Core i7 chips. These new chips, along with the new Z390 motherboard chipset volition be fix for launch on Oct 19. The new CPUs are backward-uniform with the Z370 chipset as well, so you won't need to worry most being locked out of this upgrade if you have an older motherboard.

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