Intel Core i9-14900K

[Xaled]

"Faster in productivity than any other AMD CPU"

Why beating AMD CPUs in Microsoft Office is a big achievment.?
Aslo in Adobe Premiere and After Effects. These applications never utilize(d) over %40 of my CPU, when Hardware (gpu) acceleration is not available, as in rendering a x264 video. So these application are not well optimized and not a good reference for "productivity". Even in hardware acceleration mode they never fully utilize gpus.

Let's hope we don't get back to the previous decade of %3-5 performance uplift per-series again.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Different ways of seeing it I guess, from that perspective, then yeah, it makes complete sense that if the 13900K is an editor's choice, then so is the 14900K, though from my perspective I see it as a very small generational gap to the point where while technically better, there is no point to it existing, which is why I don't think it should get it. At the end of the day, you made the review, not me, I can see why you'd give it the award, I just disagree

I think if Zen 5 was out and crushed it while using less power that would be the case but technically this is still the fastest application performance CPU and still really good at gaming so I am ok with it. The only real downside is the power consumption but that is very user dependent on how much that matters. APO sounds interesting if intel does a good job with that as well.

 

[FlanK3r]

power consumption in load is crazy, specially with open power limits. I heard, some baords have at stock this powerlimit opened (so for newbies really hot in cold winter )

i7-14700K seems more balanced overall, but still the biggest problem is high power consumption

 

[matar]

Love my 10900KF @5.2 not upgrading for a while.

 

[HBSound]

Will there be a Core i9-14900KS?

 

[shaolin95]

"Faster in productivity than any other AMD CPU"

Why beating AMD CPUs in Microsoft Office is a big achievment.?
Aslo in Adobe Premiere and After Effects. These applications never utilize(d) over %40 of my CPU, when Hardware (gpu) acceleration is not available, as in rendering a x264 video. So these application are not well optimized and not a good reference for "productivity". Even in hardware acceleration mode they never fully utilize gpus.

Let's hope we don't get back to the previous decade of %3-5 performance uplift per-series again.

You amd fanboys are hilarious. If it was the other way around you would be printing that for a t-shirt to proudly wear it lol

 

[tfdsaf]

Don't see the point of this CPU, barely 1% faster than the 13900k, but way worse power consumption and temperatures!

 

[trparky]

331 Watts of power usage? Holy crap on a cracker! Meanwhile you have AMD's Ryzen 9 7950X3D using only 140 Watts which is practically sipping the power compared to this piece of hot garbage.

Go home Intel, you're drunk.

 

[usiname]

Where is the award "The hottest CPU ever tested by TPU"?

 

[Xaled]

You amd fanboys are hilarious. If it was the other way around you would be printing that for a t-shirt to proudly wear it lol

No true. For me even a regular 7950x (non-X3D) wasn't a big thing when compared to 5950x. Despite it being faster by up to 50%. Because it required a new platform.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Where is the award "The hottest CPU ever tested by TPU"?
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intel right now....

 

[Vya Domus]

I really don't care that much about power consumption but when your CPU is using as much power as your GPU that's insane and even then that would be more palatable if it actually gave you a tangible improvement.

 

[AnotherReader]

Thanks for the great review as always. It looks like the leaks about performance being 5% higher than the 13900KS were false. All in all, it's a rather pointless release.; dropping the price of the 13900KS would have benefitted the user as much as the release of this SKU. Calling the 14900K a 13950KS would have been more accurate. It's rather reminiscent of AMD's 3800XT and 3900XT except that it's priced appropriately.

 

[unwind-protect]

@W1zzard

I have a suggestion: the power consumption test for video encoding should be multiplied by the time the encoding takes. So that you get the total consumed energy in Joule for that media file.

 

[Bigshrimp]

Intel is still on 10 nm for some reason. When will they get to 7 nm or lower? I feel that is what is keeping them from innovating and it shows. Look at the immense power draw versus AMD's way more efficient chips. I will stick with AMD as I don't need to waste all of that power and have another heater in my house, lol.

 

[W1zzard]

@W1zzard

I have a suggestion: the power consumption test for video encoding should be multiplied by the time the encoding takes. So that you get the total consumed energy in Joule for that media file.

I did expose Joules in the past, people didn't understand it, which is why I'm now listing "Cinebench Points per Watt" for efficiency

Intel Core i9-14900K Review - Reaching for the Performance Crown

Core i9-14900K is Intel's new flagship with clock speeds of up to 6 GHz. It's actually clocked even higher than the 13900KS, thanks to an extra 100 MHz when more than two cores are active. Our review confirms that Raptor Lake Refresh is amazing for both applications and gaming, if you can live...

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[oxrufiioxo]

Thanks for the great review as always. It looks like the leaks about performance being 5% higher than the 13900KS were false. All in all, it's a rather pointless release.; dropping the price of the 13900KS would have benefitted the user as much as the release of this SKU. Calling the 14900K a 13950KS would have been more accurate. It's rather reminiscent of AMD's 3800XT and 3900XT except that it's priced appropriately.

I'm gonna at least give intel some props in the days of old we would get a similar refresh to this but be forced to update the socket at least they did the right thing and made it compatible back to Z690.... I am a bit confused as to why apo doesn't or wouldn't work on 12th/13th gen though that move feels very Nvidia like. Not a hardware engineer though so I guess for reasons that is the case...

 

[Denver]

I think after the third rebrand just to show something to investors, I can only post something like this...

 

[ymdhis]

Lol, 282W max power usage (400W with limits removed) while the 78003D uses 77W, and average gaming performance is the same between the two.

We are back in the Pentium 4 vs Athlon FX days, boys and girls. And what a coincidence - the FX-55 was released almost exactly 19 years ago (19 years and 1 week to be precise).

No true. For me even a regular 7950x (non-X3D) wasn't a big thing when compared to 5950x. Despite it being faster by up to 50%. Because it required a new platform.

For me, going 2400->3600->5600G was pretty big - because it did not require a new platform.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Why is this even launching? Waste of silicon.

Because it sells. Consumers see "new gen' and open their wallets. It was the same reason AMD rebrandeon'd itself multiple times with GCN. It's dumb, but its human nature.

331 Watts of power usage? Holy crap on a cracker! Meanwhile you have AMD's Ryzen 9 7950X3D using only 140 Watts which is practically sipping the power compared to this piece of hot garbage.

Go home Intel, you're drunk.

It's gotten totally out of hand. What is the point of "efficiency" cores exactly? I thought theyd be efficient. Instead, the more E cores we get the worse the power usage is.

Lol, 282W max power usage (400W with limits removed) while the 78003D uses 77W, and average gaming performance is the same between the two.

We are back in the Pentium 4 vs Athlon FX days, boys and girls. And what a coincidence - the FX-55 was released almost exactly 19 years ago (19 years and 1 week to be precise).

Quick, someone get @fevgatos in here so he can tell us how much more efficient intel is!

 

[Double-Click]

Intel is really giving meaning to the phrase "new hotness" these days.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Intel is really giving meaning to the phrase "new hotness" these days.

How long until intel sponsors home solar panel installation so you can power your watt sucking core i9?

I really don't care that much about power consumption but when your CPU is using as much power as your GPU that's insane and even then that would be more palatable if it actually gave you a tangible improvement.

Same, but its gotten tot he point, much like the 4090, where you need exotic cooling just to run these things. It's getting a bit out of hand. Even custom water loops will struggle with the 14900k.

I though alder lake's new cores would be intel's next renascence, but instead it was just a minor roadbump to stagnation once again.

 

[mab1376]

I'm curious if performance scales down on a z690.

 

[sethmatrix7]

You amd fanboys are hilarious. If it was the other way around you would be printing that for a t-shirt to proudly wear it lol

If somebody could send me a link to the T shirt featuring the i9 running hotter and consuming much more power than the 7800X3D that would be great

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

I'm curious if performance scales down on a z690.

z690 itself shouldn't make a huge difference, unless its a DDR4 board.