Chinese website shows Core i7-9700K overclocked to 5.5GHz on all cores

The not yet officially announced Intel Core i7-9700K has been overclocked in China to a speed of 5.5GHz on all cores. Water cooling and a voltage of 1,536 volts would have been used. With the overclock, the CPU reaches 1827 points in Cinebench.

The overclocking result and the benchmark are on the Chinese website Zolcpu. An ASRock Professional Gaming Z370 motherboard was used and according to the text the processor is cooled with water cooling, but it is not clear which cooler was used exactly.

An overclock of 5.5GHz on all eight cores is a remarkably high score, but the voltage must probably be increased considerably for that. It appears that a value of 1,536 volts was used to complete the benchmark with the overclock. That value is too high for long-term use.

Presumably, the Core i7-9700K without overclock has a clock speed of 3.6GHz with a turbo boost of up to 4.9GHz. That turbo speed applies with one active core. Out of the box, the turbo speed on all cores would be a maximum of 4.6GHz. The processor gets a soldered integrated heat spreader.

The Core i7-9700K has eight cores and no HyperThreading. Together with the Core i9-9900K and the i5-9600K, the processor recently appeared in the Pricewatch. The official announcement from Intel is likely to follow in September.