Intel Core i5 9600K specifications and performance

Intel Core i5 9600K is a 6 cores and 6 threads CPU processor produced by Intel. Intel Core i5 9600K was released on 2018-10-08, the fabrication process is 14nm (nanometer), the CPU codename is Coffee Lake, the instruction set architecture is x86-64, and the CPU's integrated graphics (iGPU) is UHD Graphics 630.

Basic Information

Vendor / Supplier Intel
Short name i5 9600k
Release date 2018-10-08
CPU code name Coffee Lake
Fabrication process 14nm (nanometer)
Instruction set architecture x86-64
Market Desktop
Integrated Graphics (iGPU) UHD Graphics 630

CPU core specifications

Total number of cores 6 cores
Total number of threads 6 threads
Number of performance cores 6 cores
Number of performance core threads 6 threads
Performance core base frequency / main frequency 3.7GHz
Performance core maximum turbo frequency 4.6GHz
Number of energy efficiency cores
Number of energy-efficient core threads
Energy efficiency core basic frequency / main frequency
Energy efficiency core maximum turbo frequency

CPU cache and frequency

Bus frequency 100MHz
L1 Cache 64 KB
L2 Cache 256 KB
L3 Cache 9 MB
Unlock multiplier Yes

Memory specifications

Maximum supported memory 128GB
Memory frequency support
  • - DDR4-2666MHz
Maximum number of memory channels 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 41.6GB/s
ECC support No

Package specifications

CPU Socket LGA-1151
Default thermal design power / TDP PL1 95W
Maximum Turbo Power Consumption / TDP PL2
Maximum temperature 100°C
PCIe interface PCIe 3.0
PCIe lane count 16

Integrated Graphics specifications

Integrated Graphics (iGPU) Intel UHD Graphics 630
Base frequency 350MHz
Maximum acceleration frequency 1150MHz
Number of execution units 24
Stream Processors / Shading Units 192
Texture Units / TMUs 24
Raster Operations Units / ROPs 3
Total Graphics Power / TGP 15W
FP32 computing performance
0.38TFLOPS

Cinebench R23 performance test

Single core performance score
1190
Multi-core performance score
6632

PassMark performance test

Single core performance score
2752
Multi-core performance score
10724
Integer math 30 GOps/sec
Floating point math 25 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 44 Million Primes/sec (Millions find prime numbers per second)
Random string sorting 18.7 Million Strings/sec (Millions random string sorting per second)
Data encryption 3.2 GBytes/sec (Gigabits per second)
Data compression 150.4 MBytes/sec (megabits per second)
Physics simulation 751 Frames/sec (FPS)
Extended instruction test 13 Billion Matrices/sec (Billions matrix operations per second)

GeekBench v6 performance test

Single core performance
Multi-core performance
File compression
clang compilation
HTML5 browsing
PDF rendering
Text processing
Background blur
Photo processing
Ray tracing