Intel Core i7-9700K represents a second 9th generation 8-core processor, which is a hyper-threading-free variant of the most powerful Core i9-9900K that achieves eight cores and sixteen processing threads.
The two processors are expected to be released in October, which makes them an excellent alternative for Intel users who want to make the leap to the eight cores. Today the Core i7-9700K is being tested by Geekbench to show the world what it can do with its eight-core, eight-wire configuration.
Geekbench has properly detected the CPU with a basic frequency of 3.6 GHz and a turbo boost of 4.9 GHz with a single core. The screenshot, which confirms that the new Intel processors are compatible with the previous generation 300 series motherboards, although they require a BIOS upgrade, clarifies the use of a Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming motherboard.
The Core i7-9700K scored 6297 points in the single-core test and is thus 3-4% faster than the current generation of the Core i7-8700K Coffee Lake with six cores. If we move to multi-thread testing, the Core i7-9700K 30152 achieves a slight but noticeable improvement over the 27000000 points of the Core i7-8700K, which corresponds to an increase of around 12%. For an additional reference point, a Ryzen 7 2700X receives about 28000 points.
Therefore, the Core i7-9700K doesn’t seem to suffer too much from the lack of hyper-threading, which shows that an 8/8 configuration is more powerful than a 6/12 configuration, which many users expected.
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