The new 9000K Intel Core i7-9700K processor is the first to offer 8-core and 8-thread processing configurations in a Core i7 model without the use of HT technology. This new Intel chip could reach a frequency of 5.3 GHz in all cores with air cooling.
The Intel Core i7-9700K proves excellent heat dissipation
The Intel Core i7-9700K processor is soldered to the IHS, offering superior thermal conductivity over its predecessors, where the combination of both elements is achieved with an inferior thermal compound. A user has made the new Intel processor accessible and brought it to a frequency of 5.3 GHz with all its active cores and a voltage of only 1.215V. To do this, the multiplier was set to 53.0x, no details were given about the motherboard used for such a performance.
However, its most impressive part is cooling, as it uses a conventional tower heat sink. In order to exceed 5.20 GHz with all cores of the previous Core i7-8700K a liquid cooling is required, which shows that Intel has achieved a breakthrough in the heat dissipation of new processors through the use of soldering technology.
The absence of HyperThreading can also help to achieve higher clock frequencies, as higher speeds can be achieved on current processors by disabling this feature. These new 9th generation Intel Core processors are growing in interest and we look forward to having one on our test bench to see what they can do.