New desktop CPUs ship frequencies as much as 6.0 GHz
Intel has launched its 14th Gen Intel Core processors, a refreshed model of the 13th Gen ‘Raptor Lake’ processors it launched final 12 months, however with barely greater clock speeds.
Whereas not strictly for workstations, the brand new household of Intel chips ought to discover their manner into entry-level desktop workstations and carry out properly in largely single threaded purposes, primarily based on the findings in our thirteenth Gen Intel Core vs AMD Ryzen 7000 testing final 12 months.
14th Gen Intel Core is led by the Intel Core i9-14900K with 24 cores (8 P-cores + 16- E-cores) and frequencies as much as 6.0 GHz. Moreover, the Intel Core i7-14700K arrives with 20 cores and 28 threads because of 4 extra Environment friendly-cores (E-cores) in contrast with the prior era.
Intel is providing a complete of six new desktop processors at launch (three with built-in graphics and three with out).
There’s assist for twin channel DDR4 or DDR5 reminiscence as much as 192 GB, built-in Wi-Fi 6/6E and Bluetooth 5.3, in addition to discrete assist for brand spanking new Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 wi-fi applied sciences. Assist for Thunderbolt 5.0 is coming quickly.
When it comes to efficiency, Intel is quoting a 6% lead over the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X in multi-threaded rendering benchmark, Maxon Cinebench 2024 and a 17% lead within the AutoCAD Catalyst benchmark.
For fanatics that overclock, Intel’s Excessive Tuning Utility (XTU) now includes a new AI Help function, that’s mentioned to deliver one-click AI-guided overclocking to the Intel Core i9-14900K/KF.
The AI Help function is used to characterise particular person techniques and recommends buyer overclock settings to spice up the frequencies of each the P-Cores and E-Cores.
