Tuesday, July 18th 2023
Intel 14th Gen Core K-series Specs Leaked
Benchlife claims to have obtained full specifications of Intel's upcoming 14th Gen Core series—the site kicked things off by releasing details of a trio of Raptor Lake Refresh K-series SKUs earlier today. Insiders have seemingly divulged fairly comprehensive specs for i9-14900K, i7-14700K, and i5-14600K desktop CPUs. The expected lineup-wide implementation of greater clock speeds (+200 MHz) is present on these examples according to the leaked info—i9-14900K is reportedly capable of boosting up to 6.0 GHz (via Thermal Velocity tech), while its Core i7 and Core i5 siblings are said to be hitting 5.6 GHz and 5.3 GHz (respectively).
The Core i7-14700K seems to be the only rumored model to receive a core count increase—the listed 8P+12E configuration is decked out with more Gracemont efficiency cores when compared to the 13th Gen equivalent's makeup (i7-13700K, 8P+8E). This grants a slightly increased pool of Intel's "Smart Cache"—33 MB instead of the previous gen model's 30 MB. These 125 W TDP "K" SKUs are expected to arrive mid-October alongside "KF" models (lacking iGPUs). The 65-W non-K lineup could be presented at the next CES, and launched in January 2024.
VideoCardz has collated the leaked information, and has updated its comparison charts (referencing 12 & 13th Generation Core SKUs):
Sources:
Benchlife, momomo_us Tweet, VideoCardz, Wccftech
The Core i7-14700K seems to be the only rumored model to receive a core count increase—the listed 8P+12E configuration is decked out with more Gracemont efficiency cores when compared to the 13th Gen equivalent's makeup (i7-13700K, 8P+8E). This grants a slightly increased pool of Intel's "Smart Cache"—33 MB instead of the previous gen model's 30 MB. These 125 W TDP "K" SKUs are expected to arrive mid-October alongside "KF" models (lacking iGPUs). The 65-W non-K lineup could be presented at the next CES, and launched in January 2024.
27 Comments on Intel 14th Gen Core K-series Specs Leaked
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Should they have delayed the announcement of LGA-1851? Did they basically just say, use Core iX-14 as an upgrade path for socket 1700, but if you are hanging out for a new platform, socket 1700 is end of the road, so wait for 1851? Oh wait. It's Intel. They expect you to upgrade your platform for every tick-tock iteration of x86!
But knowing Intel it's going to be an Alder Lake chip with kneecapped clocks.
14600K looks really weak compared to the 14400 and 14500. Wonder if it's once again Raptor lake only 14600K and Alder lake 14400/14500.
Else there's not much reason to go 14600K...
For example, X3D chips aren't inherently more efficient than the normal X chips, they're just voltage/power capped to a sane number because of the cache intolerance to the voltages the chips normally run at.
Nothing stops you from setting a 150 W or a static voltage limit and seeing a whole 5% lower performance if the power draw bothers you.
There should be some efficiency improvements as the process is further matured and all of the SKUs should be based on the Raptor lake core not the Alder lake core, which has a larger cache and other improvements.
It's just a demonstration of uncoordinated PR. Day n they release last Core i socket 1700. This has taken months of work and planning. But on day n-1 other PR team announce socket 1851. If you can't see the stupidity in that order of PR then you are overlooking the obvious. Big company stovepipes.
The question is, what about this? Users of Hybrid CPUs can verify or not what is shown in the video
On LGA 1700 we have 12th series and 13th series where the main difference is with P cores, with E cores being the same architecture and with 14th gen we have a refresh where we get in fact different models of the same architectures, not new architectures, if I am not mistaken. So this, in best case scenario, is two CPU families, not 3. The 3rd is just the 2nd getting more family members and a new name. And considering half the 13th gen is still Alder Lake models, maybe it's more like one and a half series, not two.
I haven't experienced any of these issues in the two months since I upgraded. But I have E-cores and all power saving features disabled.
It doesn't make sense that it would only affect some users. And it's been almost two years since the release of Alder Lake.
On topic, disappointed if the 14600K turns out to just have extra 200 MHz with 6 P-cores. That's basically an irrelevant change.
They're going all in after the marketing points of achieving a better cinebench score even if users and workloads hate the configuration
Hopefully all the lower tier models get upgraded to Raptor cove and Gracemont+ cores at least.
Finally is DLVR inlcuded or not. Some rumours claiming it will use less power at same clocks as 13th gen.
If E-Cores where only for background tasks and Cinebench, the i9 13900K will have got TRASHED by the 7950X in productivity because it would have been 8 cores vs 16. Jesus, people those days.
Second shot will have some parked p-cores as preferred core only gets 5.4ghz when is enough parked.
This is my first CPU I have left c-states on default as they not noticeable, usually they are.I think it probably is with the sheer amount of e-core boosting going on, but we probably wont know for sure until they released and reviewed.