>In a bid to maintain an intrigue, Intel did not disclose TDP of its new product.
They basically released all the details but TDP. Very likely this sucker is a steaming hot mess. Wonder what the stock cooler is like, or if it's even possible to sustain these clock speeds on their stock cooler.
Intel has stopped delivering stock coolers with K-series CPUs for a while now. There is technically a sort of reference cooler but you'd have to buy that separately and nobody does that. Every single person in the market for a CPU like that was planning to use a "custom" cooling solution anyway. (Although custom in this case could just mean to put a big air cooler or AIO on it.)
Tbh the TDP doesn't really matter. It's a binned 9900K. We already know how those perform. It's literally just doing what siliconlottery does and getting some publicity for it.
> They basically released all the details but TDP. Very likely this sucker is a steaming hot mess.
Very likely it's just going to have the same "lie" for the TDP that they do for all their desktop chips. You can configure it to run at TDP specs, but ~nobody~ does. They instead run at PL2 specs (sustained power delivery rating for turbo), which for the 9900K for example is 210W despite the 95W TDP. Meaning per Intel's own specs the 9900K can run at 210W forever, as long as it has sufficient cooling.
The 9900KS isn't going to be a 5GHz base clock part. It's a 5GHz all-core turbo. The 9900K is, by comparison, 4.7GHz all-core turbo. So we're not talking much of a bump. If they leave the 9900KS at the same base frequency as the 9900K it'll have the same 95W TDP. Maybe they bump it by a 100mhz or something trivial and slap a 105W TDP rating on it. Doesn't really matter since it's a pretend number in made up fairy land anyway.
They basically released all the details but TDP. Very likely this sucker is a steaming hot mess. Wonder what the stock cooler is like, or if it's even possible to sustain these clock speeds on their stock cooler.