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Intel Core i9-9900K Coffee Lake 8-Core, 16-Thread, 3.6 GHz (5.0 GHz Turbo) CPU -AUD $926.13 shipped @ Newegg
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AMD YES?
For almost everybody yes.
But this is still a marginal winner for gaming and a clear winner in a couple of applications.
AMD 3700x is a better buy. Negligible difference in gaming at 1080p. 1440p and 4k there is almost no difference. Mind you will need a 2080ti to actually get that frame rate in only some games. With a 2080 and below there is no difference. The only application, based on reviews, where the 9900k has a negligible advantage over 3700x is the Adobe suite is due to poor software optimisation. The 3700x sips power, whilst the 9900k sucks a lot of power. Intel TDP rating is at base clock, so the 9900k will keep you warm in winter during self isolation as a room heater.
Totally correct. Did you copy and paste from Tom's hardware. Lol
Even my 8700k keeps my spare room warm in winter - and thats running around 50-60° while gaming.. small spare room mind you.
AUD $920.70 is not a bargain. Frankly this price is an insult to all Ozbargainers.
Hasn't it been around $800 or so before?
I reckon it's best to wait until the ten series desktop CPUs drop and then snap up one of these.
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I got mine for $655.20 on Nov 22nd. Obviously a different world then though.
The before times.
Before the dark times. Before the Empire…
I paid 764 from computer alliance last June.
Guess this all goes well with the Alienware 34 Curved Gaming Monitor which was also just posted.
hahahahaha! I agreed!
I think this is a joke. Now there is a $3k AMD Radeon Card posted
cheaper amd 3900X wins hands down
This is the answer. Anyone spending this much money on a CPU should be doing research on which parts to buy, all answers will point to AMD 3900x if you’re shopping in this price range.
Watch YouTube reviews/comparisons, read tech reviews.
50% more cores, better all round performance for cheaper.
Yes the intel 9900k is slightly better at gaming but at very high FPS you will literally not notice the difference between 130fps vs 142fps or 95fps vs 105fps.
A high end CPU like this should be paired with a high end GPU, you’ll be getting high frames no matter what.
Macros prefers an Intel CPU to avoid really a lot of troubles and bugs from and CPUs, especially on mac workstations. Otherwise AMD yes.
You mean like all those security flaws found every few months in Intel CPUs that need patches and reduce performance?
I run catalina on both and although regret not spending a bit more on another 9900k for my use case which is app development, I havent had any issues with ryzen running macos
Yeah and also the Nvidia GPUs are designed to run with the Intel CPUs so that's the reason why FPS is optimised with the 9900K. Now that AMD have proved their tech is better Nvidia will be running to them for next gen compatibility. PS5 and X-Box have already made them their choice
I think GPUs are not designed to perform better against one particular platform. It's more like the game developers tends to optimise their game against Intel before, due to their large market share. But it's now all getting changed slowly towards AMD.
I'd take a 3700X and keep the rest towards a 4700X when they're released. I reckon if you're thinking about a 9900K you're not really needing the extra cores on the 3900X and at these inflated 9900K prices seems you'd come out ahead regardless of how bad a deal you get when you sell the 3700X.
Whatever happened to Moore's law?
The single-thread performance is only 50% better than a bog-standard i5 from 7 years ago.
Impressive for multi-threaded performance, with all those cores. A shame that writing multithreaded code is so hard though :)Moore died a few years ago from a brain aneurysm. He couldn't handle the high power (heat) required to hit 5+GHz on all cores using shitty Thermal Interface Material(TIM) with skylake-X.
Absolute rort. I paid ~$600 for a 9900k in January 2019 which already a big stretch value wise.
Comet Lake isn't too far away.. with a new LGA 1200 socket
14nm+++++++++
Your still short a few +'s 😂
Wow that price is mental. You're better off getting a 3600X and saving the almost $600(!!) for a GPU upgrade or a 4700X at the end of the year
You've gotta be mad paying $900 for a 9900k right now.
3600X isn't even in the same ballpark as the 9900K. You probably meant 3900X. Even so, there's plenty that would prefer to pay extra for Intel for better performance (regardless how marginal) as well as far better compatibility and drivers. Over the ~5-10 year lifecycle of the CPU, that's a minor difference.
This is the best price for a 9900k right now for those that want it specifically.
You might be a bit out-dated here Hybroid, just look at PassMark Benchmarks and you'll see how crap the 9900K is in this day and age.
Here are some Benchmark scores:
Intel 9900K: 18,932
AMD 3600X: 18,281
AMD 3700X: 22,717These numbers should already be enough to convince you the 9900K is a bad purchase, but if you want something that absolutely obliterates the competition, you can currently get an AMD 3950X for $1,300.
And what's that CPU's PassMark score……. 39,283!!!!!!
AMD drops mic
Average CPU benchmarks aren't real world use. There are uses beyond benchmarks and indeed just games. Many 9900's are used for number crunching like F@H purposes that AMD's counterparts cannot compare to. It's not necessarily lack of sheer spec but the software compatibility that's unable to actually use all those cores. What's the point.
@Hybroid: Alright, Single threaded performance is better on the Intel CPU
If we're talking specifically about Folding@Home, I looked it up and the program can make use of multiple cores
Not really. It's definitely in the same ballpark. The 3600X is basically an AMD 8700k, it's pretty good not many people would really complain about the difference between it and a 9900k. I don't really see a 9900k being useful for most people unless you have a specific niche that intel does better with, and there are a couple of those, but even then 10th gen is about to come out and should be a lot cheaper than this.
The 3900x and 3950x are a big step up in price and performance
Worth considering the cheaper i9-9900KF (basically the same but no on board graphics) if you plan to use a separate video card anyway.
Price in the title please