Surprise! The Intel Core i9 13900KS is out today.
January 12—for $699. The processor has been teased and talked about plenty over the past few months, but the world's first-ever 6GHz desktop processor at stock speeds actually launches today.
Yes, a chip formally announced and launched on the same day—you don't see that much these days. This high-performance processor hopes to be the be-all and end-all of gaming performance and is capable of hitting a 6GHz Max Turbo clock out of the box. Earlier this week Intel showed off the chip in action with a glimpse of the. Granted, it's not sticking at that lofty clock speed for long, but that's generally the case for all CPUs nowadays.
A 6GHz processor is absolutely awesome. But even Intel must know how incredibly niche this sort of chip is. With therunning up to 5.8GHz, and even that processor being mostly overkill for everything but the most intensive professional creation workloads, I do wonder why anyone might feel the need to pay an extra $100 for the 200MHz faster Core i9 13900KS. .
Binned chips that hit these sorts of turbo speeds have been gradually becoming less and less appealing over the years. The so-called golden chips you might have found a decade ago, capable of running whole gigahertz faster than their mundane siblings, are long gone. You're looking at a couple hundred megahertz out of a near-perfect die nowadays, at least without liquid nitrogen.
Process node development has also slowed over the years, meaning material gains for clock speed are a matter of pushing for more out of pre-existing nodes, which is what Intel has been doing for a couple of generations now.Header Cell - Column 0
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