Intel i9 9900K CPU release date, specs, price, and performance

There might not be long to wait for the first Intel eight-core CPU with Hyperthreading. Despite Intel keeping quiet about the chip's existence, the i9 9900K has been all over the internet - promising to outperform even the red team's finest AMD Ryzen 7 2700X. And we can confidently expect Intel's latest chip to launch really soon. No, we've not just divined that from patterns of birds around our office, since benchmarks have begun flooding in from across the web it looks almost certain that the i9 9900K is in its final form and that Intel is gearing up for a launch. The benchmarks never lie. Actually, benchmarks often lie, but mostly only the ones that appear as skewed mobile phone pictures. They really are the worst. This isn't the first time Intel has taken the initiative to stick the i9 prefix onto one of its fastest chips. The mobile i9 8950HK has been available for quite some time, and the HEDT platform chips, Skylake X, have been rocking i9 for a while. But, the i9 9900K is the first LGA 1151 compatible i9 part gamers can pair with a full-size discrete GPU for the very best gaming performance, and that's pretty exciting.

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