i9-9900KS vs i9-9900K

[Sargatanas2511]

If you’re waiting until May comet lake 8 core with further refinement over coffee lake.

What refinements might they be? Higher clocks for extra power draw?

 

[Troezar]

Hmm, good advice all. I might just go for the 3700X and get one of the new AMD CPUs when they release later on this year.

I think you'll be pleased with the result. The 4000 series sound very interesting. Must resist an upgrade for now as I'm hardly taxing this 3700X atm

 

[Robert896r1]

What refinements might they be? Higher clocks for extra power draw?

Better IMC for better ram performance. Right now a good imc/board/bdie kit will top out around 16/4400 2T with tight timings and around ~33ns. latency (aida). That can be improved on.

Better silicon with lower load voltages, small silicon substrate for better heat dissipation and thus a cooler chip. On a 8 core, this would get your daily 53-54x range at similar temps and voltages to a 9900ks.

Better cache to allow higher cache OC which inturn reduces latency.

Even at 14nm, there are certainly technical and performance improvements to make over CFL-R but we'll see if that happens.

 

[Sargatanas2511]

Better IMC for better ram performance. Right now a good imc/board/bdie kit will top out around 16/4400 2T with tight timings and around ~33ns. latency (aida). That can be improved on.

Better silicon with lower load voltages, small silicon substrate for better heat dissipation and thus a cooler chip. On a 8 core, this would get your daily 53-54x range at similar temps and voltages to a 9900ks.

Better cache to allow higher cache OC which inturn reduces latency.

Even at 14nm, there are certainly technical and performance improvements to make over CFL-R but we'll see if that happens.

Do you have any links to show any of this has actually been done? I have heard nothing about an improved IMC or 'better cache'.