The Intel Core i9-10900K Comet Lake main processor is a pretty expensive affair, but for those who want 10 cores without such a high price, there may be new hope for some cost savings in the form of an alleged Core i9- 10850K CPU. that Intel could have in the works.
Tum_Apisak, a respected source who often spills hardware leaks on Twitter, discovered the Core i9-10850K through a Geekbench result.
I9-10850K1 processor, 10 cores, 20 threads GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 165 Step by step 5 Base frequency 3.60 GHz Maximum frequency 5.17 GHz https: //t.co/Qv5TzYdcxGhttps: //t.co/CRaDXBLO7RJuly 3, 2020
As you can see, if this result is genuine, it indicates that the 10850K will be a 10-core (20-wire) alternative to the current flagship 10900K, achieving very similar performance at least according to these Geekbench scores.
The main difference seems to be that the Core i9-10850K has a slightly slower speed, dropping 100MHz at both standard clock speed (which drops to 3.6GHz) and boost (dropped to 5.2GHz). And as the benchmark indicates, this probably won’t make as much of a difference on the performance front (certainly not on a single core anyway).
Chip cheaper?
The hope, then, will be that Intel will obviously launch this chip at a slightly cheaper level than the Core i9-10900K, of course, assuming the 10850K actually exists, and that it will go on sale to consumers, because there is a possibility of Make this a CPU that can be sold only to device manufacturers (an OEM processor, in other words).
Intel may want to offer an alternative for frame-hungry gamers, of course, given that it’s under fire from AMD’s impending new XT turns on high-end Ryzen 9 models (3800XT and 3900XT). So maybe this is part of some countermeasures against those rival pitches.
Another possibility is that with the 10900K struggling on the stock front, these chips are pretty thin right now, a new 10850K could be another way to increase inventory on the high end for Comet Lake.
We also saw another twist on the vanilla i9-10900 recently, namely the 10-core Intel Core-i9 10910 CPU, although it is apparently destined for the Apple iMac due to launch later in 2020, with a 3.6GHz base clock and a clock pulse at 4.7GHz.
Via Wccftech
