Intel’s 14th generation Raptor Lake Refresh processors are already scratching their hooves and it should certainly not be very long before Intel releases its new chips. The Core i9-14900K is a processor with 24 cores and 32 threads, which contains eight P-cores and 16 E-cores. It serves as a direct replacement for Intel’s Core i9-13900K, the current flagship 13th generation Raptor Lake. There is also the Core i7-14700K, which will replace the Core i7-13700K. However, the Core i7-14700K has received a small upgrade in its core configuration, because while the Core i7-13700K has eight P-cores and eight E-cores, the Core i7-14700K has four additional E-cores.
As I wrote before, we shouldn’t probably put too much hope in Raptor Lake Refresh in terms of a significant performance increase. According to the performance forecasts from Intel that I published, the new hybrid chips could only be between 1 and 3 percent faster than Raptor Lake. A pure resfresh, then. A leaked Crossmark test now also goes in this direction, but it raises big questions. I’ll go out on a limb and assume in Intel’s favor that it was only a so-called ES (Engineering Sample) or at most QS (Qualification Sample) with significantly lower clock rates, especially since one of the systems was an OEM computer from Acer. Nevertheless, I don’t want to withhold the screenshots leaked by HXL on Twitter.
14700K/14900K CrossMarkhttps://t.co/JZU1EJPb2Ahttps://t.co/LMGqdnLdO9 pic.twitter.com/NFyDypOw4W
— HXL (@9550pro) August 7, 2023
And yet I have to underline the question mark again thickly. Because since this is a refresh, the Core i9-14900K and Core i7-14700K will logically end up with higher clock speeds than their Raptor Lake counterparts. It’s a shame that the Crossmark benchmark doesn’t show the clock frequencies of the processors. As I speculated, the Core i9-14900K could have a boost clock speed of up to 6 GHz, 200 MHz higher than the current Core i9-13900K, but on par with the Core i9-13900KS. None of this is new.
As with all preliminary benchmarks, the results have to be taken with absolute caution. According to Crossmark, the test systems were equipped with 16 GB of DDR5-4800 memory and both systems also used a GeForce RTX 4090 as a dedicated graphics card.
In these tests, the Core i9-14900K was up to 14 percent faster than the Core i7-14700K. Looking at the individual results, the former had between around 15 and 20 percent higher scores in productivity, creativity and responsiveness. Unfortunately, the comparison is rather limited, because the results of the Core i9-14900K and Core i7-14700K shown here are clearly below those of the current CPUs. But you could at least better rank the new Core i7-14700K in comparison to the top model.
All the rumors about Raptor Lake refresh point to an October release, but the actual announcement by Intel could come earlier though. Intel has scheduled the Intel Innovation 2023 event for September 19-20, which would give a chance for an unveiling.
Source: HXL via Twitter
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