Intel’s ‘Comet Lake-S’ 10th-gen Core CPUs hit 10 cores and 5.3GHz speeds

You can turn off hyperthreading on a per-core basis, allowing gamers to cut unnecessary power and push the remaining cores into turbo mode for longer.

Intel’s latest 10th-gen “Comet Lake S” desktop processors solve the hyperthreading issues that plagued Intel’s 9th-gen chips, with a unique wrinkle: the ability to dial hyperthreading on and off on a per-core basis. The fastest of the thirty-two new chips pushes clock speeds up to 5.3GHz, though that’s specific to a single core. Intel boasts the 10-core/20-thread Core i9-10900K will be the world’s fastest gaming processor, a claim that we’re eager to test.
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