Core i9-9900K

General

Manufacturer

Intel

Family

Core i9

Codename

Coffee Lake-R

Type

Desktop

Instruction set

x86-64

Release date

October 2018

Launch price

US$ 488

Socket

LGA 1151-2

Memory

DDR4-2666

Product page

intel.com ↗

Performance

Cores

8

Threads

16

Base clock

3.6 GHz

Boost clock

5 GHz

L2 cache

2 MB

L3 cache

16 MB

TDP

95 W

Process

14 nm

Integrated GPU

UHD 630

Extensions

MMXSSESSE2SSE3SSSE3SSE4.1SSE4.2AESAVXF16CFMA3AVX2

SPEC CPU

SPECrate 2017 Integer (base)

51 ↗

SPECrate 2017 Floating Point (base)

42.9 ↗

Highest published base result on a system with one processor. Each score links to its result at spec.org; retrieved Nov 10, 2026.

SPEC CPU 2017 was retired in November 2026: no new results are published, and its scores cannot be compared with SPEC CPU 2026.

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