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AMD A10 9700 Cpu
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Intel Core i5 9600 Cpu
Intel Core i5 9600
Editiorial reviews
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8 editorial reviews
AMD is refreshing its desktop processors with Piledriver, an enhanced version of Bulldozer that focuses on improving instructions per clock and frequency -- just like it did...Read more
Last year, AMD launched its Bulldozer architecture to disappointed enthusiasts who were hoping to see the company rise to its former glory. Today, we get an FX processor based on the Piledriver update. Does it give power users something to celebrate?Read more
HotHardware takes a detailed look at the new AMD FX 8350 octal-core desktop processor, formeraly codenamed Vishera.Read more
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5 editorial reviews
Intel's Core i5-8600K is priced $120 below the i7-8700K, making it an interesting option for the more value-oriented buyer. It features the same six-core design, but lacks HyperThreading and loses 3 MB of cache. Our testing shows that it still is a great CPU, especially when overclocked to almost 5 GHz.Read more
It always seemed the overclockable Core i5 8600K would be the Intel Coffee Lake CPU that would steal my gaming heart. I was wrong.Read more
Intel's Coffee Lake-S flagship, the Core i7 8700K is - in our view - the fastest gaming CPU that money can buy right no…Read more
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Intel's Core i5-9600K looks to upset the Ryzen 5 2600X as the value chip for the mainstream.Read more
The Core i5-9600K may not have the core-count increases of its higher-priced siblings, but it received a healthy frequency bump over its predecessor, coupled with hardware patches to some vulnerabilities. We already proved that the i7-9700K is the best gaming CPU by Intel. Can the humble Core i5 challenge it in this arena?Read more
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User rating
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4.2 out of 5
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General

Processor socketAM4AM3+LGA 1151LGA 1151
Component forPCPCPCPC
Operating modes
  • 32-bit
  • 64-bit
64-bit64-bit64-bit

Processor

Clock speed3.5 GHz4.0 GHz3.6 GHz3.1 GHz
Max turbo speed3.8 GHz4.2 GHz4.3 GHz4.6 GHz
Number of cores4866
Number of threads4866
Thermal Design Power (TDP)65.0 W125.0 W95.0 W65.0 W
Processor lithography0.0 in0.0 in0.0 in0.0 in
Bus type
N/A
N/A
DMI3
N/A
Idle states
N/A
N/A
yesyes

Integrated Graphics

On-board graphics adapteryesnoyesyes
TypeAMD Radeon R7
N/A
Intel UHD Graphics 630Intel UHD Graphics 630
On-board graphics adapter base frequency1029.0 MHz
N/A
350.0 MHz350.0 MHz
On-board graphics adapter DirectX version12.0
N/A
12.012.0

Memory

Cache2 MB8 MB9 MB9 MB
Cache typeL2
N/A
Smart CacheSmart Cache
Memory clock speeds supported by processor2400.0 MHz1866.0 MHz2666.0 MHz2666.0 MHz
Memory types supported by processorDDR4 SDRAMDDR3 SDRAMDDR4 SDRAMDDR4 SDRAM
Memory channelsDualDualDualDual
Memory bandwidth supported by processor (max)
N/A
29.9 GB/s41.6 GB/s41.6 GB/s
Maximum internal memory supported by processor
N/A
N/A
64.0 GB128.0 GB

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