If the day past’s leak for the Core i5-14600K were given you just a little stoked about whether or not it is a promising CPU, a number of clean spillages will handiest improve that vibe.
VideoCardz identified a trio of Geekbench effects for the 14600K, which underline the specifications leaked up to now (particularly that its core configuration would be the similar because the 13600K, but it surely’ll get a bump in spice up clock to five.3GHz, a 200MHz build up).
Probably the most fascinating Geekbench end result right here, despite the fact that – in a PC constructed on a Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Grasp X motherboard – displays most sensible clock speeds starting from 5.3GHz all of the means as much as 5.7GHz.
The latter signifies that the tester used to be engaged in overclocking, and it’s a substantial soar in speeds from the default spice up there, in idea (take all this with a just right sprinkling of seasoning, naturally).
The Geekbench ratings are just about in step with what we noticed with the day past’s leak we referred to on the outset, indicating the 14600K is round 5% quicker for single-core and about 10% or simply over for multi-core in comparison to its predecessor. (Even supposing notice that some previous leaks have recommended the latter might be fairly extra like 15%).
With overclocking to five.7GHz, thoughts, we see an extra bounce in efficiency of 8% for multi-core (and simply over 1% for single-core), that means the overclocked chip is extra like 20% quicker than the 13600K (operating at inventory speeds, so in fact, that isn’t an excellent comparability – but it surely’s fascinating to peer the variation however).
Research: Clocking up
What lends this leak just a little extra weight is this isn’t the primary time we’ve heard that the next-gen Raptor Lake Refresh processors may just neatly be offering some spectacular overclocking attainable.
For those who recall, the 14700K – the opposite CPU that we’re maximum prepared to peer with the 14th-gen, with the exception of the 14600K – has prior to now been boosted to an excellent near-6GHz overclock. Take into account, that’s a Core i7 processor clocked appreciably sooner than the Core i9-13900K (at default speeds).
Now, what we don’t know is how a lot of a efficiency achieve the ones overclocks would possibly carry to undergo – to not point out what cooling used to be used – however the attainable uplift seems forged sufficient from the leakage up to now.
Even if Intel seems to be conserving Raptor Lake Refresh very a lot beneath the radar, with little point out of the next-gen CPUs any place, making an allowance for they’re launching in a fortnight (in idea), there are nonetheless brilliant spots of optimism that we’ll see some spectacular sufficient chips right here (amongst some cloudier stories of pedestrian efficiency positive aspects, thoughts).
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