In characteristically cagey trend, Intel has posted a YouTube sneak peak (opens in new tab) of its upcoming 6GHz CPU. Intel says the brand new chip will hit 6GHz “out of the field” and “with out the necessity of being overclocked”.
Virtually actually, this new CPU mannequin shall be referred to as the Core i9 13900KS and mirror the prevailing 13900K (opens in new tab) in all however peak Turbo Enhance Max clock pace, upping the ante from the plain outdated “Okay” mannequin’s 5.8GHz to the symbolically vital 6GHz determine. However Intel nonetheless will not truly identify the chip.
Intel demo’ed the chip utilizing an off the shelf Corsair CPU cooler, working a 7-Zip benchmark after which {Hardware} Data to trace the CPU frequency. Even in Intel’s rigorously curated video, the chip would not handle a sustained 6GHz.
Jason Xie, technical advertising and marketing engineer for Intel, explains that “staying on that 6GHz actually will depend on the setting. A whole lot of elements come into play — energy finances, thermals, the software program itself, Home windows is probably not allocating to the fitting cores.”
The chip has been teased on quite a few events beforehand. So, at this level we might sort of like to only see the factor launched and that can be purchased, even when the 200MHz frequency enhance just isn’t one thing that you simply’re ever truly going to really feel, in-game.
As for pricing, we dare not ask. With the Core i9 13900K going for about $600 / £600, this new 6GHz is just going to be dearer. Nonetheless, it’s going to seemingly be much less cash than a mid-range GPU, eh?
Anyway, as we talked about late final 12 months (opens in new tab) there was a time when Intel was predicting 10GHz CPUs courtesy of its NetBurst Pentium 4 processors. Over 20 years later, it hasn’t received anyplace close to delivering on that.
However on this period when shrinking transistors appears to be more and more tough, it is attention-grabbing to take a position whether or not clock pace would possibly make a return as a major driver of efficiency.
