Thoughts on the i9 9900k

[boarderms]

Simply wanted to get others opinions on Intel's release of the i9 9900k. Obviously in terms of value compared to the 2700x I don't think there's much of an arguing point. However, price/value aside, what are everyone's personal opinions?

 

[volkgren]

Great high-performance CPU; terrible price. Some people don't like the power consumption and temps, but to me that's a given with high-end CPUs like that. I think the i5-9600K is just as good of a gaming CPU for now especially for the price.

 

[Supernova1138]

It's basically Intel's FX 9590, trying to push the absolute most out of an aging architecture/process power consumption and temperatures be damned, all because they can't get their 10nm yields up to acceptable levels. About the only thing going for it is unlike the 9590 it actually is a good performer despite the power and heat issues, but at its current price it is a hard sell. As a pure gaming chip, it's barely faster than the 9700k or even the 8700k once overclocked because virtually no games scale past 6 cores/12 threads right now. As a productivity chip, it's sold at such a high price that you could get a 12 core/24 thread Threadripper chip for a similar amount of money once you factor in the high end cooling you also have to buy. The Threadripper chip would trounce the 9900k in most productivity workloads.

About the only situation where the 9900k might make some sense right now is if you are a Twitch streamer and you don't want to use GPU encoding or a dedicated streaming PC. In that one use case, the 9900k outdoes R7 2700x and Threadripper in terms of the balance between game performance and encoding performance.

 

[The Original Ralph]

take a look at this review from Tom's front page
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i9-9900k-9th-gen-cpu,5847.html

basically runs thru a number of comparisons using a number of games as well as video rendering / compression applications, as well as other

should tell you what you want to know

 

[volkgren]

The FX 9590 was considerably slower than the Intel i7 and even i5 of its day. The i9-9900K still beats AMD's flagship handily in gaming as does every other Intel i5 and i7 from the past 2 generations. But, that was already pointed out. For high-end systems, I don't see temperature and power consumption an issue. I just hate that the overclocking experience is taken away by the high stock clocks.