Not exactly. The 9900k still has 4 MB more of L3 cache and a little higher turbo boost than the 9700k. Hyperthreading with 8 cores does nothing for gaming currently and the higher clocks only make it a few percent faster than the 9700k in the gaming benchmarks shown in recent reviews. What would be the point in buying a 9900k instead of a 9700k if you are going to disable hypertheading?Doesn't that make it the 9700k? 8 cores, 8 threads?
I play Rainbow 6 Siege and 4c4t CPU's get around 50 FPS lower than 4c8t CPU's in Terrorist Hunt (max CPU load).Not exactly. The 9900k still has 4 MB more of L3 cache and a little higher turbo boost than the 9700k. Hyperthreading with 8 cores does nothing for gaming currently and the higher clocks only make it a few percent faster than the 9700k in the gaming benchmarks shown in recent reviews. What would be the point in buying a 9900k instead of a 9700k if you are going to disable hypertheading?
He does say "Hyperthreading with 8 cores does nothing for gaming currently".I play Rainbow 6 Siege and 4c4t CPU's get around 50 FPS lower than 4c8t CPU's in Terrorist Hunt (max CPU load).
I have tested R6 on a 14c xeon, and HT didn't add such a considerable boost; but was still there. Clockspeed was also much lower, memory speed was much lower, and I was rather unimpressed with performance as a whole. I would love to see more R6 Terrorist Hunt CPU benchmarks. No matter how many cores you throw at it, it will report near 100% usage on each core. It isn't actually 100% usage, but it is pretty funny to see.He does say "Hyperthreading with 8 cores does nothing for gaming currently".
When you only have 4 cores, it is not so surprising if Hyperthreading helps in certain games.
Are you sure it's not because of the combination of a larger L3 cache, faster clock speeds, and hyperthreading on the 4-core CPU, and not just because of hyperthreading accounting for the increased performance in the game?I play Rainbow 6 Siege and 4c4t CPU's get around 50 FPS lower than 4c8t CPU's in Terrorist Hunt (max CPU load).
Absolutely positive. I have tested this game on a wide variety of CPUs, some where the i5 has larger L3 than the i7, and where the i5 is clocked significantly higher.Are you sure it's not because of the combination of a larger L3 cache, faster clock speeds, and hyperthreading on the 4-core CPU, and not just because of hyperthreading accounting for the increased performance in the game?