Wednesday, February 14th 2024
Intel Core i9-14900KS Draws as much as 409W at Stock Speeds with Power Limits Unlocked
Intel's upcoming limited edition desktop processor for overclockers and enthusiasts, the Core i9-14900KS, comes with a gargantuan 409 W maximum package power draw at stock speeds with its PL2 power limit unlocked, reports HKEPC, based on an OCCT database result. This was measured under OCCT stress, with all CPU cores saturated, and the PL2 (maximum turbo power) limited set to unlimited/4096 W in the BIOS. The chip allows 56 seconds of maximum turbo power at a stretch, which was measured at 409 W.
The i9-14900KS is a speed-bump over its predecessor, the i9-13900KS. It comes with a maximum P-core boost frequency of 6.20 GHz, which is 200 MHz higher; and a maximum E-core boost frequency of 4.50 GHz, which is a 100 MHz increase over both the i9-13900KS and the mass market i9-14900K. The i9-14900KS comes with a base power value of 150 W, which is the guaranteed minimum amount of power the processor can draw under load (the idle power is much lower). There's no word on when Intel plans to make the i9-14900KS available, it was earlier expected to go on sale in January, along the sidelines of CES.
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HKEPC
The i9-14900KS is a speed-bump over its predecessor, the i9-13900KS. It comes with a maximum P-core boost frequency of 6.20 GHz, which is 200 MHz higher; and a maximum E-core boost frequency of 4.50 GHz, which is a 100 MHz increase over both the i9-13900KS and the mass market i9-14900K. The i9-14900KS comes with a base power value of 150 W, which is the guaranteed minimum amount of power the processor can draw under load (the idle power is much lower). There's no word on when Intel plans to make the i9-14900KS available, it was earlier expected to go on sale in January, along the sidelines of CES.
228 Comments on Intel Core i9-14900KS Draws as much as 409W at Stock Speeds with Power Limits Unlocked
Presshot all over again, pepperidge farm remembers!
So irony has it intel's top parts are best used by clocking down and doing less for their money at this point.
Nice. Why don't you disable E cores while you're at it! More megahurtz on your glorified octacore nowPeople aren't assuming, its a fact. I'm sure it'll tune a little better. You'll have paid that performance thrice over though. There is simply no real economy behind those parts. Its 'can do'. Not 'make sense'.
If people want to buy ridiculous products power to them. But there's also power to others to laugh at their idiocy, because opinions.
Now, if you're buying this chip to set records and are actually working at that, hey, that's a different story. But that's not what a lot of owners do. They're just epeening, and they deserve every bit of laughter pointed at them.
Now let's say an e core is 15% faster than a logical thread that relies on gaps in the pipeline... and for that space savings you could have added more ecores.
I don't think the intel engineers would have made the decision to ditch HT if it wasn't something that was going to give them a noticeable advantage. And given that they are trying everything and anything to increase performance, I think this has a chance to be real innovation.
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If Intel has ditched SMT for newer architectures, it certainly isn't due to performance reasons. Rather, the primary driver would be slightly simpler validation and reduced attack surface for code in shared environments, i.e. cloud providers' infrastructure.