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How Intel has launched its range of ninth generation processors has been an odd and awkward one. Despite the launch of the 8-core 9900K last year, we still haven’t had all of the lower end processors in the family actually be announced, despite several leaks in the meantime. That all changes today as the company is giving out a full list of processors, with availability soon to follow. There are still question marks about Intel’s ability to meet the new increased demand, so it will be interesting to see if Intel can still provide the lower frequency and lower core count hardware in volume.

Today’s launch comes in two parts: Desktop and Mobile. Desktop is on this page, Mobile is on the next page.

Update 4/23 1:30pm ET: Intel has informed us that it had a typo in some of the product names of its CPUs. The text and tables have been updated to reflect this.

Intel 9th Generation Core Desktop Processors: 34 CPUs
Dubbed ‘Coffee Lake Refresh’, the 9th generation of Intel’s Core CPU product line is a direct refresh of its 8th generation Coffee Lake hardware, with minor enhancements such as a better thermal interface on the high end processors, support for up to 8 cores, and newer chipsets with integrated USB 3.1 Gen2 (10Gbps) and CNVi-enabled Wi-Fi. The hardware is still fundamentally the original 6th Gen Skylake microarchitecture underneath, from 2016, but built on Intel’s latest 14nm process variant, in order to extract additional frequency and efficiency, and with more cores at the high-end.

Intel sub-divides its CPUs in two ways. First, by the Core i-series number:

* Core i9: Eight cores, with HT
* Core i7: Eight cores, no HT
* Core i5: Six Cores, no HT
* Core i3: Four Cores, no HT
* Pentium Gold: Two Cores, HT
* Celeron: Two Cores, no HT

Then, each processor may have an additional suffix related to certain features that are enabled or disabled:

* K = Overclockable
* KF = Overclockable with No Integrated Graphics
* No Suffix = Standard CPU, 54-65W TDP, Integrated Graphics
* F = No Integrated Graphics
* T = Low Power, 35W TDP