The first review of a Core i9-9900KS places it as the best for gaming

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The first review of an engineering sample of the Intel Core i9-9900KS special edition processor is already on the web, and although confidentiality agreements have not been able to publish images of it, they have determined that it is currently the best gaming processor that exists.

Intel says the new Core i9-9900KS will hit the market before the end of the month, but apart from the basic technical specifications that came to light in an event that took place in Taipei, the company has not disclosed all the technical information related to this New flagship processor that is coming.

This means that, with this review that has been published by Tom’s Hardware, we can now get an idea of what Intel has really prepared to combat the domain that AMD has right now in the gaming market.
If AMD has cores, Intel responds faster

Before we begin to show you the results obtained and the conclusion of the review, we want to review the fact that, until now, the Intel Core i9-9900K was the top of the range for desktop of the company, leaving aside the HEDT processors. This processor is able to put two of its cores at 5 GHz, but the Core i9-9900KS is able to do it in all its eight cores, which represents an increase of 300 MHz when all of them are active.

In addition, Intel has also increased the base speed by 400 MHz, although this has also meant raising the TDP of the processor to 127 watts (this has been published by several motherboard manufacturers, but has not been confirmed by Intel).

Recall also that, although Intel has not yet announced the official price that this processor will have, an online store leaked that it would be $ 559.99, that is, $ 70 more than the 9900K, which means a considerable price increase for a handful of additional MHz, in addition to some internal improvements aimed at reducing the impact that security enhancements against vulnerabilities had on the performance of previous models. We will see if the increase in performance is worth the price increase.
Greater Overclock Potential

We already saw a few days ago that a Reddit user had done with one of these processors and had managed to raise its operating frequency to 5.2 GHz easily and with an air heatsink. In the review of Tom’s Hardware they managed to reach the same speed with great ease, raising the vCore to 1.36V and the RAM memory running at 3600 MHz.

The analyst indicates that he still had a lot of range to continue raising the operating speed, the processor being cooled by an EKWB Supremacy Evo liquid cooling heatsink, since they obtained temperatures between 77 and 81 degrees Celsius by subjecting the processor to stress. This means that the Core i9-9900KS is a wonder for overclocking fans.
The CPI is lower than the 9900K

Here we find the counterpart. More speed, better overclock, but worse IPC performance compared to 9900K. Intel has made some modifications to the processor's micro code to mitigate security vulnerabilities, and it was rumored that this could have a negative impact on the IPC. This has been the result of the tests they have performed.

As you can see, the performance of the CPI is slightly lower in the 9900KS compared to 9900K. Just over 5% in LuxMark and less than 1% in other tests, which may be negligible, but ideally it would be the other way around, right?
Core i9-9900KS performance in games

Below we show you the graphs of comparative performance of this processor with the previous ones that have been tested on the source's website. The following games have been used to measure performance:

     Ashes of the Singularity.
     Far Cry 5.
     Final Fantasy XV.
     Grand Theft Auto V.
     Project Cars 2.
     World of Tanks enCore

Here you can see the results obtained: