Testing Games i9 9900k vs i7 8700k Test in 9 Games Posted: May 26, 2025 | Last updated: May 27, 2025 Intel Core i9-9900k vs i7-8700k Test in 9 Games Games : Assassin's Creed Odyssey The Witcher 3 ...

Well, sort of. Intel commissioned a third-party -- in this case Principled Technologies-- to conduct exhaustive gaming testing with the Core i9-9900K, Core i7-8700K and a handful of AMD Ryzen ...

At the time of its release, the 8700K was heralded for its outstanding single-threaded and gaming performance. Fast-forward to today, and the new i9-9900K is being touted for the same things. So, the ...

It's fairly obvious that the Core i9-9900K that I'm reviewing today is hugely expensive. It's nearly $200 more than the Core i7-8700K and nearly $300 more than AMD's Ryzen 7 2700X, which also ...

On the Middle-earth: Shadow Of War benchmark (Ultra, 1080p, DX11), the Core i9-9900K (5.0-GHz) hit a solid 92 frames per second, but the Core i7-8700K (4.9-GHz) matched it to the decimal.

Let's ignore the 9900K for now since I can't show you those results, instead let's focus on the 8700K and 2700X. Here the 8700K was 29% faster than the 2700X, that's a much bigger margin than I ...

Q: An opportunity came up to buy a 9900K for $300. Right now, I own a PC with an 8700K, which I use with an RTX 3080 on an ultrawide 3440x1440p monitor. If I buy the 9900K, I could pass down the ...

Testing with HandBrake we see a 14% reduction in performance with the TDP limit enforced, so the 9900K is just 4% faster than the 8700K and 13% faster than the Ryzen 7 2700X. The 1st and 2nd ...

For this test, we used an engineering sample Core i9-9900K, along with an engineering sample Core i7-8700K and an early-production AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, provided directly by AMD. We tested the Core ...