JULY 2020 PCWorld 47

Intel 10th Gen: The Core i9-10900K

is indeed the world’s fastest

gaming CPU

Intel’s 10th-gen Comet Lake S CPUs don’t take the crown in multi-core performance but they

close the gap enough that you may want to consider them. BY GORDON MAH UNG

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ntel’s 10th-gen Core i9-10900K is—without

a doubt—exactly as Intel has described it:

“the world’s fastest gaming CPU.”

Intel’s problem has been weaknesses

outside of gaming, and its overall performance

value compared to AMD’s Ryzen 3000 chips.

With the Core i9-10900K, Intel doesn’t appear

to be eliminating that gap, but it could get

close enough that you might not care.

WHAT IS CORE I9-10900K?

Despite its 10th-gen naming, Intel’s newest

desktop chips continue to be built on the

company’s aging 14nm process. How old is

it? It was first used with the 5th-gen Core

i7-5775C desktop chip from 2015 (go.

pcworld.com/575c). Many tricks,

optimizations, and much binning later, we

have the flagship consumer Core i9-10900K,

IMAGE: GORDON MAH UNG