Update 22 Oct: Please check update here as well.

Yesterday Intel released “new” generation of CPU’s and I would like to talk about top CPU in this “new” generation.

But firstly, I would like to mention that it is actually not new. It is pretty much same as 8000 series with minor tuning. They just finally able to increase core count.

You can watch review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I--zROoRws

To be honest to me it made strange impression.

9900K costs $580 while top AMD cost $304. Intel has no cooling and it is quite hot. From watching different reviews looks like Intel needs high end cooling and many reviewers recommend around $100 cooling solutions. AMD on other end have quite