Thursday, August 24th 2023
MSI Confirms Intel 14th Gen Core Specs In YouTube Live Stream
MSI has done it yet again, that is to leak Intel confidential information about upcoming products. In a live stream earlier today, the company put on a slide clearly marked "NDA, do not share!" which confirms the specs of some of Intel's upcoming 14th Gen Core CPUs, also known under the Raptor Lake-S Refresh code name. That said, the only thing that really needed confirmation that is on the slide is that the Core i7-14700K is getting an additional four E-cores.
That said, MSI does provide some insight on what to expect in terms of performance gain over the 13th Gen Core processors and it's not a whole lot. According to MSI, we should expect an average performance boost of around three percent compared to the same SKU from the previous generation. That's possibly one of the worst performance gains ever from Intel, generation to generation, although it is only a refresh, but the question is, why did Intel even bother? The Core i7-14700K does on average get a 17 percent performance boost in multi-threaded applications thanks to the extra E-cores, but this is hardly going to make anyone with a Core i7-13700K going to want to upgrade. Note that the video has been taken down by MSI as of the time of this article being posted.
Sources:
MSI (on YouTube), via VideoCardz
That said, MSI does provide some insight on what to expect in terms of performance gain over the 13th Gen Core processors and it's not a whole lot. According to MSI, we should expect an average performance boost of around three percent compared to the same SKU from the previous generation. That's possibly one of the worst performance gains ever from Intel, generation to generation, although it is only a refresh, but the question is, why did Intel even bother? The Core i7-14700K does on average get a 17 percent performance boost in multi-threaded applications thanks to the extra E-cores, but this is hardly going to make anyone with a Core i7-13700K going to want to upgrade. Note that the video has been taken down by MSI as of the time of this article being posted.
37 Comments on MSI Confirms Intel 14th Gen Core Specs In YouTube Live Stream
Let's see in the near future.
I’m hoping for a price drop on the 13900k. If it goes low enough I’ll consider upgrading the 12700k.
Also when I tried to go AMD I got a defective motherboard and got shafted on the service :(
12th gen was a massive upgrade, but the 2 gens after it were rather disappointing
edit: will be rather disappointing*
I enjoyed building PCs more in the days where you could extract the performance of a $500 part from a $200 one. These days, it feels more like trying to not get ripped off too much.
I will stay on Z690 for maybe 4~5 more years.