Monday, October 14th 2024
Could the Core i9-14900KS Successor be the Core Ultra 9 295K?
Intel's new Core Ultra processor model nomenclature is significantly different from the Core i7 series that held for 14 generations, since its 2008 debut. The desktop Core Ultra 2-series "Arrow Lake-S" desktop processor family is led by the Core Ultra 9 285K, which is positioned as a successor to the Core i9-14900K. The choice of numbering the top SKU "285K" instead of something like the "290K," which even caused the top Core Ultra 7 SKU to be numbered the "265K," raises a few questions. The biggest of these is if Intel is creating room for a near-future SKU to go with "295K."
In the classic Intel Core series nomenclature, the digit following the first two, designates a position in the product stack. For example, in the i9-14900K, "14" points to the processor generation, followed by "9" as the top-spec SKU. If you wind the clocks back to the 10th Gen Core "Comet Lake," there was a top-spec Core i9-10900K, but there was also a Core i9-10850K. Both the i9-10900K and the i9-10850K are unlocked 10-core/20-thread parts with identical TDP, set apart only by their stock clock speeds. Could it be possible that the Core Ultra 9 285K is a distant descendant of the i9-10850K, and that Intel's top "Arrow Lake-S" part is the "295K?" Momomo_us recently dug out an inconspicuous Intel Support webpage listing out Core Ultra desktop processors without an included fan-heatsink. This is very likely a typo, but the page mentions a "295K" SKU instead of the Core Ultra 9 285K. This caused us to wonder if the "295K" is being reserved for an i9-14900KS successor.
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momomo_us (Twitter)
In the classic Intel Core series nomenclature, the digit following the first two, designates a position in the product stack. For example, in the i9-14900K, "14" points to the processor generation, followed by "9" as the top-spec SKU. If you wind the clocks back to the 10th Gen Core "Comet Lake," there was a top-spec Core i9-10900K, but there was also a Core i9-10850K. Both the i9-10900K and the i9-10850K are unlocked 10-core/20-thread parts with identical TDP, set apart only by their stock clock speeds. Could it be possible that the Core Ultra 9 285K is a distant descendant of the i9-10850K, and that Intel's top "Arrow Lake-S" part is the "295K?" Momomo_us recently dug out an inconspicuous Intel Support webpage listing out Core Ultra desktop processors without an included fan-heatsink. This is very likely a typo, but the page mentions a "295K" SKU instead of the Core Ultra 9 285K. This caused us to wonder if the "295K" is being reserved for an i9-14900KS successor.
23 Comments on Could the Core i9-14900KS Successor be the Core Ultra 9 295K?
you need a chart to figure out what the thing is
Is there a possibility the 295k could be an HEDT CPU?
www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-ultra-arrow-lake-preview/2.html
This is for those who still want to pay $600 to be 20% slower than the fastest chip at gaming, but this time at 300W TDP.
(to make it clear - yes Intel does the naming wrong) I doubt an ordinary 5 year old kid can read numbers or count. Therefore a 5 year old can not understand the difference. Schol entry year is 6 years or higher. Maybe 7 or 8 year is able to.So u want simple naming?
Intel 3
Intel 5
Intel 7
Intel 9
Still hard ?
Way more confusing than their Xeon naming scheme.
All that said, I don’t know that I’d want to be early adopter of Intel’s tile architecture. It might be perfectly fine, but it’s a big departure from what it replaces. I suspect there will be some heartburn early on.
Changing zeroes to a singular five with no further elaboration doesn't deserve a praise, either. What does this five stand for? Yo no quiero esta porquería, ése.
That all doesn't bother me anyway, I'm only curious to see if anything sub 300 USD can make fun of 13700 non-K in video games. If it does, I'm all for it despite the naming, unless motherboards prove private jet level expensive.
never mind when they start packing bigger Igpus in some and small ones in others add other cache configurations an inferencing hardware…