Intel Core i5-9600K benchmarks leaks - hits 5.2GHz on air

WCCF Tech spotted benchmarks of the Intel Core i5-9600K. This is an upcoming six-core, six-threaded processor that will arrive later this week for $262.

The chip can reportedly hit 5.2GHz with high-end aircooling, but required 1.507V to achieve this feat:

Coming to the overclocked performance benchmarks, we see that the chip was overclocked to 5.2 GHz on air cooling with a voltage of 1.507V which is quite high. It’s not known whether this was a manual overclock or an auto overclock using the built-in BIOS tuner. The Core i5-9600K uses the new STIM (Soldered Thermal Interface Material) and even still, the temperatures were going past 90C (Degrees) at full load across all cores. The culprit probably being the high voltage. The entire system power consumption was 240W in the CPU only workloads which are standard for all CPUs in the mainstream department.

Here's a quick overview of the benchmark results:

Cinebench R15:
- Core i5-9600K @ Stock: 1034 CB
- Core i5-9600K @ 5.2G: 1207 CB

CPU-Z:
- Core i5-9600K @ Stock: 528.8 Single Thread / 2919.1 Multi-Thread
/ - Core i5-9600K @ 5.2G: 619 Single Thread / 3579.7 Multi-Thread

X264 HD Benchmark:
- Core i5-9600K @ Stock: 37.55 fps
- Core i5-9600K @ 5.2G: 43.76 fps

The source of this news is a Chinese video streaming portal, which got its hands on a sample of the Core i5-9600K.