All in all, it was pretty obvious. After all, on the aged 14nm + technical process, it is simply impossible to achieve a frequency of 5000 MHz for all cores, and even while maintaining a 95-watt packet. Even a regular 9900K didn’t fit into it and often consumed a lot more power.

Higher clock frequencies have certainly led to higher power consumption figures, and we now know what the TDP will be for the as-yet-to-be-released Core i9-9900KS.

Recently, the official ASUS website has updated information regarding the ROG Maximus XI APEX motherboard. It was on its processor support page that a newcomer was noticed with an unprecedented TDP for LGA1151 processors:

It is difficult to imagine how much Core i9-9900KS will consume, for example, in applications that actively use AVX instructions. Most likely, resting on its thermal package, it will reduce the frequency to 4500-4700 MHz.

Of course, this protection can be disabled in the BIOS settings of the motherboard, however, is it worth overpaying for a processor that cannot operate at the declared frequency is a subjective question.

These are all assumptions. Naturally, you need to wait for the release of the processor itself and find out in practice what frequencies it can hold on all cores under prolonged serious loads.

Nevertheless, even now we can safely say that future owners of the Core i9-9900KS processor will need good liquid cooling to maintain silence and an extremely expensive motherboard with a high-quality power system.

At the moment, the price of the Core i9-9900KS has not been announced, but it is expected to drop to the $500-600 range, given that the Core i9-9900K already spans the $488 to $500 range.

The processor is due out in October, and we will definitely share more information about its heat dissipation and power consumption as soon as we have official data or private tests.

Source: WccfTech

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