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Why it matters: While Geekbench is not the benchmark of choice for many, the Core i7-9700K scores do provide some insight on the performance we can expect from the processor. In its current state, the ...

Intel's second-string 9th Gen CPU is still a decent buy at less than $300. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Intel's shifted its ...

In an effort to match the pace of change, Intel has stuffed another two cores into its mainstream Coffee Lake silicon. Enter: the Intel Core i7 9700K, one of only three 9th Gen processors on the ...

Released in 2018, the Core i7-9700K is Intel's flagship processor. It is overclockable and has great per-core performance. However, Team Blue and Team Red present compelling arguments for consumers to ...

If you have around $350 to spend on a powerful eight-core mainstream processor, you currently have two options; Intel's Core i7-9700K or AMD's Ryzen 7 2700X. There's around $80 between them, with ...

Late last week HEXUS wrote about some leaked Geekbench scores for the upcoming Intel Core i7-9700K processor. The scores revealed a modest but worthwhile performance increase as we move from the ...

Core i7, the boss wants to talk to you. The good news: you got a promotion and a bump from six cores up to eight cores in Intel’s 9th generation CPU lineup. Woo-hoo! The bad news: Turn in your ...

Intel is readying a bunch of new processors, both for mobile and on the desktop, as revealed by fairly massive leak this morning. We covered those already, but on top of all the processors that were ...

The Intel Core i7 9700K is a weird Coffee Lake processor, but that doesn't seem to be stopping it from offering a 20% multi-core performance boost despite having only two-thirds the thread-count of ...

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