The brand new 14th gen Raptor Lake-S Refresh has best minor variations from the present thirteenth gen lineup, and it’s in keeping with the similar Intel 7 10 nm procedure. As such, present Intel 600 and 700 Collection chipsets must be absolutely suitable with the brand new processors. Motherboard OEMs have already began transport up to date BIOSs that permit drop-in compatibility with 14th gen processors.
That being stated, there are a couple of tweaks this time round. Intel is bringing Utility Optimization (APO), very similar to the Complex Efficiency Optimizations discovered within the Arc circle of relatives of GPUs, to choose 14th gen desktop processors. Intel says that APO is a framework inside Dynamic Tuning Era (DTT) with a focal point on gaming.
APO permits sure video games that Intel has partnered with to have a slight efficiency edge. The APO capability can’t be became off. It isn’t precisely transparent if the 14th gen APOs have the similar impact as that of the implementation present in Arc. It can be recalled that UL Benchmarks invalidates any 3DMark run with Arc APO enabled.
The opposite new characteristic is reinforce for Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 as discrete choices in conjunction with Thunderbolt 5. We additionally get to peer new overclocking options together with reinforce for DDR5-8000 XMP profiles, preview options coming to Intel XTU, and AI help for overclocking at the Core i9 sequence.
We can have our personal gaming and function benchmarks for the next day’s evaluation embargo, however Intel’s advertising and marketing numbers display positive aspects in some video games and regressions in others in comparison to AMD’s desktop Zen 4 choices such because the Ryzen 9 7950X and the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Intel additionally dwelt at the significance of 99% percentile numbers. As soon as once more, some great benefits of 14th gen with such metrics are closely game-dependent.
Intel’s content material introduction benchmarks together with PugetBench, CrossMark, Autodesk, UL Procyon, and Cinebench 2024 display a good uplift for the Core i9-14900K over the Ryzen 9 7950X. That being stated, the positive aspects are reasonably decrease in checks comparable to Cinebench 2024 multi-core and 3DSMark Toon with the Arnold Renderer.
Of explicit passion are the generational advantages with the brand new Core i7-14700K/KF that now provides a 20-core 28-thread configuration over the Core i7-13700K’s 16 cores and 24 threads.
Naturally, this additionally implies that the mixed L2/L3 cache has now larger to 61 MB in comparison to 54 MB within the Core i7-13700K/KF.
Total, Intel claims a 23% upper efficiency in gaming for the Core i9-14900K over the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. That is within the sport Starfield at 1080p, in line with the footnotes.
For some reason why, the AMD gadget was once run within the Balanced profile with the CPU at a 120 W TDP whilst the Core i9-14900K’s PL1 itself was once set at 253 W and in a Top Efficiency energy plan.
In a similar way, for the 54% positive aspects in content material introduction declare, the Core i9-14900K is appearing operating at a 253 W PL1 whilst the Ryzen 9 7950X, a 175 W chip, is gimped at 105 W.
Subsequently, advertising and marketing numbers should be fascinated with a large pinch of salt. We can get a greater image for ourselves after we take a look at the 14th gen CPUs ourselves.
The 14th gen sequence is being led via the Core i9-14900K, a 24-core 32-thread phase, at a US$589 RCP whilst the KF variant with out the (nonetheless unchanged) UHD Graphics 770 iGPU will also be had for US$564. On the backside of the desk is the 14C/20T Core i5-14600KF that may set you again via US$294 RCP.
Intel is best detailing the primary SKUs within the Core i9, Core i7, and Core i5 segments for now. Further SKUs and a conceivable Core i9-14900KS and a Core i3 lineup usually are introduced at CES 2024 as has been the norm.
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