Intel i7 9700K appears on the Geekbench Database

Intel’s upcoming 9th Generation of processors is perhaps the worst kept secret in the PC market right now, with reports on the series dating back to 2018, accurately predicting the processor’s use of eight cores on the company’s long-lived LGA 1151 socket.  

Now, Intel’s i7-9700K has appeared on the Beekbench database, showcasing extremely high levels of CPU performance for a stock processor, delivering performance numbers that are close to what we achieved when overclocking an i7-8700K in both single-threaded and multi-threaded performance. 

The primary differences between the i7-9700K and i7-8700K are their core/thread counts and clock speeds, with the i7-9700K offering eight cores and no hyperthreading. In contrast, the i7-8700K offers six cores and hyperthreading support, leaving many to ask the question, which is better, the extra two cores or hyperthreading support. The i7-9700K also delivers higher boost clock speeds, allowing it to achieve similar performance levels to an overclocked i7-8700K. 

In our i7 8700K testing (link), our test system achieved a single-core score of 6477 and a multi-core score of 30141 when overclocked to 5GHz, delivering similar results to what we see below with the i7-9700K. This is an extremely impressive result for what appears to be a stock i7-9700K, offering end-users a notable boost in performance over its last-generation counterpart. The question now is, how far will the i7-9700K overclock?