These benchmarks are again mentioned in the news with the arrival of the Intel Core i5-9600K processor in its database.
With the introduction of the Intel Core i5-9600K processor, this chip is part of the next family of the 9th generation Core family. It has been disregarded by the introduction of 8-core solutions with the Core i7-9700K and Core i9-9900K. But a better price-performance ratio is expected compared to the current Core i5-8600K.
It will offer six physical cores without hyper-threading. In fact, Intel plans an easy check of the operating frequency. If the Core i5-8600K is calibrated to 3.6GHz for a Turbo Boost mode at 4.3GHz, this Core i5-9600K will be operated at 3.70GHz with a Turbo Boost frequency of 4.60GHz.
Core i5-9600K performance
Coming into the Geekbench database, it is possible to obtain performance values in mono and multicore. The application returns the results of 6015 and 23,393 respectively.
The performance increase is relatively low compared to the Core i5-8600K. It’s +3.7% in single-core versus 2% in multi-core.
It is important to note that as the increase in frequency accounts for these small performance gains, it is possible that the gap may increase in other contexts. Intel recently commented on the difference between Whiskey Lake and Coffee Lake. While most of the new features refer to the presence of physical protection against specific vulnerabilities this may affect performance in the future. This is expected to improve performance in “speculative execution” over a current Intel processor with various software patches.