Intel’s subsequent desktop CPU launch goes to be the 14th-gen Raptor Lake Refresh, and certain the final era of processors within the present line of “Core i” household CPUs. As you might guess from the identify, these will probably be basically (if not actually) the very same silicon as we’re already utilizing within the Thirteenth-gen CPUs, however Intel will probably be sprinkling some further cores and clocks down the product stack.
For those who’ve adopted alongside, that makes them basically similar to the Core i5-13600K aside from one spec, and that is the clock charges. The P-Core enhance clock has been raised by 200 MHz to five.3 GHz, and the E-core clock will get a 100-MHz enhance, too.
Way more thrilling is the potential of course of tweaks providing improved effectivity and lowered energy consumption for the brand new collection. If that is the case, meaning improved overclockability. Raptor Lake in its Thirteenth-Gen kind is already pushed to the restrict, and there is not rather more to get out of the silicon with out utilizing excessive cooling, however it’s doable that 14th-Gen may very well be better-behaved.
That is not simply idle hypothesis. One of many leaks that we have seen within the final couple of days is a Geekbench 6 end result for a Core i5-14600K on a Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Grasp X motherboard that clocked all the way in which to 5748 MHz throughout a part of its benchmark run. The typical clock fee was reported as 5485 MHz, which is clearly above the rated 5.3 GHz enhance. These numbers aren’t totally out of attain for a Core i5-13600K, however you’d want some critical cooling and a top quality chip to get there.
That person was additionally working 48GB of DDR5 reminiscence at 7600 MT/s, which appears like a pair of 24GB modules, to us. Even with simply two modules, and even on Intel, 7600 MT/s is fairly darn quick for socketed RAM.
We’ve not used Geekbench 6 in our testing but, however paging across the database, it seems just like the overclocked Core i5-14600K is scoring in the identical ballpark as a Ryzen 7 7700X on the single-threaded exams, and simply forward of a twelve-core Ryzen 9 7900X within the multi-threaded exams. Geekbench 6 could be very delicate to reminiscence throughput, so these outcomes will differ so much relying on the RAM used.
The 14th-gen “Okay” CPUs are anticipated to launch subsequent month, presumably as quickly as October seventeenth, if the leakers are appropriate. Whereas people on Thirteenth-gen methods most likely haven’t got a lot to get enthusiastic about, in the event you’re working a Twelfth-gen machine and your motherboard will get the requisite BIOS replace, a 14th-gen CPU may very well be a reasonably strong improve in your system. We’ll have a full overview to verify, in fact.
