Intel is set to release their Core i9 9900K late August or September, the new mainstream 9th generation flagship model has appeared in 3DMark, with specs and a score and everything.

The eight-core CPU scores 10718 points in the Time Spy CPU test. When you isolate and compare that number a bit back and forth, you can compare it compare with say a Ryzen 2700X, which is at 9147 points, Intel's Core i7 8700K scores an average of 7918 (all at defaults). That's 25% more cores, and 25% more CPU performance.

As expected the chip shows 8 cores with 16 threads. Interesting, however, is a listed base-clock of 3.1 GHz (which seems quite low) and that also contradicts with an earlier leak this week indicating a 3.6 GHz base clock. So likely that is an engineering sample. The benchmark was run on a Z370 motherboard from Asus, again indicating that it can be possible to use current Z370 motherboards. Likely for overclocking and tweaking, you will need Z390 with an improved power delivery. I've placed the result set into our own chart, please understand that the result thus is based on the leaked entry, we obviously cannot vouch for it, but the result set seems in a line of expectancy.

Mind you that the Time Spy CPU is limited, hence it's so close to many core solutions like Threadripper. The Time Spy CPU test does not scale well on processors with 10 or more threads (!).

Intel Core i9 9900K benchmark leaks: Roughly 25% faster than i7 8700K