A Canadian retailer has listed the unannounced Intel i9 9900K, i7 9700K, and i5 9600K CPUs online. The listings, which are not yet confirmed, indicate that stock of the first two mainstream eight-core chips and the six-core i5 will be available on September 14, 2018 – just over a week away. That seems rather sooner than we had expected, so we’d maybe take that shipping date with a pinch of sodium chloride. Intel’s i9 9900K will be the company’s top mainstream chip, arriving with eight cores and 16 threads. It’s expected to sport a base clock of 3.6GHz and Turbo up to 5GHz out of the box. Pricing had been a mystery, but now we have a, potentially spurious, indication of how much damage to our bank accounts this shiny new chip will do. The DirectDial listing indicates a price of $685 CAD. That’s roughly $520 USD or £401. In comparison to the previous top Intel mainstream part, the i7 8700K, which comes with a recommended customer price of $359, that’s quite a price bump for two extra cores. One that is significantly more than the price bump when Intel moved from the four-core i7 7700K to the the six-core i7 8700K. That Intel i9 price tag screams market dominance, which is a little odd considering Intel does have some competition now. Some rather strong competition. AMD’s Ryzen chips have been outselling Intel’s finest recently, and these chips, including the latest Threadripper in that price range, will surely deter many potential customers from Intel’s upcoming offerings if it sticks to a high price premium for eight cores. Cores Threads Base Turbo Cache TDP Price New – Core i9 9900K 8 16 TBD TDB 16MB TBD TBD New – Core i7 9700K 8 8 3.9GHz 4.9GHz 12MB 95W TBD Core i7 8700K 6 12 3.7GHz 4.7GHz 12MB 95W $359 Core i7 8700 6 12 3.2GHz 4.6GHz 12MB 65W $303 New – Core i5 9600K 6 6 3.7GHz 4.5GHz 9MB 95W TBD Core i5 8600K 6 6 3.6GHz 4.3GHz 9MB 95W $257 New – Core i5 9600 6 6 3.1GHz 4.5GHz 9MB 65W TBD Core i5 8600 6 6 3.1GHz 4.3GHz 9MB 65W $213 New – Core i5 9500 6 6 3GHz 4.3GHz 9MB 65W TBD But, again, these prices are unconfirmed at this point, and surely the i7 9900K’s price won’t be quite so hefty come release date. As for the i7 9700K, a straight eight-core / eight-thread chip and, sort of, a more direct comparison with the current top chip, it will cost $533 CAD, or $411 USD. That’s just a touch more than the i7 8700K, which the same site, DirectDial (via Twitter user momomo_us), offers for $515 CAD, or $391 USD (£301). That’s also considerably more expensive than many outlets sell that particular chip right now, and might mean that all three chips – the i9 9900K, i7 9700K, i5 9600K – listed prices could be similarly skewed upwards in these early listings. So maybe that’s good news for customers waiting on Intel’s Coffee Lake refresh. The i5 9600K is listed for $363 CAD, $276 USD (£212). Again, that’s a small price bump over the i5 8600K from the initial batch of Intel Coffee Lake chips launched this time last year. So it seems only the unprecedented i9 9900K chip has a particularly high initial price tag once you take into account this retailer’s apparent tendency to price a little above the likes of Amazon and Newegg. The specs of the i9 9900K are essentially what any one of us might have expected the i7 9700K to have arrived with before the first rumours started appearing online. Instead, however, it looks like eight Intel CPU cores is simply too much silicon to sell for the same price as six from last year, and the price has been subsequently cranked up along with the number on the logo. A tactic Intel of 2014 might’ve been able to get away with, but Intel in 2018, with Ryzen and 7nm breathing down its neck? I’m not so sure. Let’s hope this is just speculative pricing and not what Intel has in store when the Coffee Lake refresh and accompanying Z390 motherboards launch, presumably, very soon.<doc-sep>Just when we thought there weren’t any more Coffee Lake Refresh details to leak, Amazon reportedly goes and leaks the price and packaging for Intel’s upcoming flagship processor. Thanks to an accidentally posted Amazon listing for the Intel Core i9-9900K spotted by Momomo_Us, we now know the processor won’t come in any ordinary box, but a transparent dodecahedron. If this 12-sided die-shaped packaging is the real deal, it would seem Intel aims to one-up AMD’s packaging game, which has introduced some outstanding boxes for Ryzen Threadripper 1st and 2nd Generation CPUs. We're not terribly convinced by the screenshot, simply because it looks like a blown-up dodecahedron die with a bit of Intel Core i9 badging pasted onto it. A 12-sided shape also seems like a curious choice when the Intel Core i9-9900K is rumored to feature 8-cores and 16-threads. As Wccftech notes, a hexadecagon or octahedron would have better reflected the product. ☕️®️🎁https://t.co/HkemyWeWsj⁉️October 1, 2018 See more Casing aside, the Amazon listing also suggests the Intel Core i9-9900K will cost $582 (about £450, AU$810). That’s quite a bit higher than the $480 (about £370, AU$660) price for the same chip we saw leaked by Silicon Lottery, which came alongside a rumored $370 (about £280, AU$510) price for the Intel Core i7-9700K. Comparatively, the most expensive Intel Coffee Lake processors are the $359 (£389, AU$524) Intel Core i7-8700K and $425 (£419, AU$629) Intel Core i7-8086K. Looks like AMD has its own 8-core, 16-thread processor on the way Via Tom’s Hardware<doc-sep>
Amazon US has listed Intel's Core i9-9900K, the company's long-anticipated response to AMD's Ryzen, for $582.50. It's also Intel's first eight-core 16-thread processor for the mainstream desktop. Twitter user @momomo_us posted a screenshot of the packaging this morning, and after a bit of digging, we found the full listing. The listing also reveals Intel's new packaging, which appears to be a translucent new dodecahedron, meaning it is shaped like a d12 die (twelve-sided). Intel's new Core i9-9900K packaging is obviously a direct response to AMD's impressive Threadripper packaging that has set a new bar for the processor market. We can see a latch/hinge on one of the panels that provides access to the processor. There also appears to be a housing in the center of the package for the processor. Intel doesn't provide coolers with its high-end processors, so the large packaging likely only has the processor inside. In either case, the new packaging is a welcome addition, particularly when you plunk down $582.50 for a new processor. Amazon lists the Core i9-9900K as out of stock and doesn't list a ship date. The listing also confirms that the processor boosts up to 5.0 GHz, which is impressive for an eight-core processor. (Image credit: Amazon) The Core i9-9900K will work with existing Z370 motherboards, but we also know that Intel has the Z390 chipset waiting in the wings. We've come across quite a few details about the new processors, which you can find in their entirety here. Model Cores / Threads Base Frequency Boost Frequency Cache TDP Core i9-9900K 8 / 16 3.6GHz 5GHz (1 / 2 Core)4.8GHz (4 Core)4.7GHz (6 / 8 Core) 16MB 95W Core i7-9700K 8 / 8 3.6GHz 4.9GHz (1 Core)4.8GHz (2 Core)4.7GHz (4 Core)4.6GHz (6 / 8 Core) 12MB 95W Core i5-9600K 6 / 6 3.7GHz 4.6GHz (1 Core)4.5GHz (2 Core)4.4GHz (4 Core)4.3GHz (6 Core) 9MB 95W Core i5-9600 6 / 6 3.1GHz 4.5GHz 9MB 65W Core i5-9500 6 / 6 3GHz 4.3GHz 9MB 65W Core i5-9400 6 / 6 2.9GHz 4.1GHz 9MB 65W Core i5-9400T 6 / 6 1.8GHz 3.4GHz 9MB 35W Core i3-9300 TBA (4/4) TBA TBA 6MB 65W Core i3-9300T TBA (4/4) TBA TBA 6MB 35W Core i3-9100 4 / 4 3.7GHz 3.7GHz 6MB 65W Core i3-9100T TBA (4/4) TBA TBA 6MB 35W Core i3-9000 4 / 4 3.7GHz 3.7GHz 6MB 65W Core i3-9000T TBA (4/4) TBA TBA 6MB 35W According to the latest leaked information, Intel's newest progeny also comes with the benefit of Indium solder between the heatspreader and the die, which will undoubtedly ease the cooling burden during overclocking. The processors' 5.0 GHz Turbo Boost certainly bodes well for those pursuits, too. The increasing amount of leaked information about the Core i9-9900K, not to mention the Amazon listing, means you'll see the review on these pages soon.