Intel i5 9600K and i7 9700K Review

Test Setup

Intel Core i5-9600K
Intel Core i7-9700K
ASUS Z390 Strix-E Gaming
Corsair LPX 4000MHz
Corsair LPX 3200MHz
Corsair MP500 M.2
nVidia GTX 980
Corsair HX1000i
Corsair H110i GT
Corsair ML Fans

Overclocking

Both the 9th Gen Intel CPUs we have on test today can overclock well. The i5-9600K can have the 4.9 GHz boost clock spread across all six cores without needing much of bump in vCore, whilst the Core i7-9700K is an overclocking monster, giving us 5.2 GHz across all eight cores. That’s a barely believable overclock and should lead to some significant increases in our benchmarks.

i5-9600K

i7-9700K