Intel’s i9 9900K has appeared on Geekbench

Yet more scores for Intel’s planned 9000 series of processors have leaked onto Geekbench, this time showcasing the company’s i9-9900K, the new flagship of Intel’s desktop lineup on their 300-series motherboard platform.  

The i9-9900K is designed to offer users eight cores and sixteen threads, matching AMD’s Ryzen offerings while also delivering higher clock speeds and a maximum single-core frequency of 5.0GHz, promising high levels of single-threaded and multi-threaded performance. 

On Geekebench, the i9-9900K is shown to offer a single-threaded score of 6248 and a multi-threaded score of 33037, surpassing our stock i7-8700K results by a considerable margin (link). However, it is also worth noting that this result offers a lower single-threaded score than previously leaked i7-9700K Geekbench results, with the benchmark’s results rundown hinting at the use of a slower memory clock speed, which may hamper the CPU’s final benchmark score. 

The test below uses an ASUS Z370 ROG Maximus X Hero motherboard, with 16GB of DDR4 memory running at an unknown speed.