Intel hits 6GHz (once more) with its 14th-gen desktop CPUs

It was that when you dreamed of reaching 6GHz speeds together with your scorching rod desktop CPU, you’d should attempt your luck with overclocking and all the potential instability and cooling calls for that required. Earlier this 12 months, Intel launched the Core i9-13900KS, which hit 6GHz proper out of the field. Now, the corporate is doing it once more with its quickest 14th-gen desktop CPU, the i9-14900K. That frequency is only a short-lived “Thermal Velocity Enhance” velocity, which is not sustained for very lengthy, but it surely’s nonetheless one thing Intel can lord over AMD.

These 14th-gen chips, to be clear, are completely different from Intel’s just lately introduced 14th-gen Core Extremely processors for notebooks. Understandably, Intel is specializing in effectivity for its cell lineup, whereas its desktop chips are all about uncooked energy (and 6GHz bragging rights). You may have a look at the 14th-gen desktop {hardware} as a final gasp for Intel’s present structure, the place the corporate does not thoughts pushing energy calls for to out-bench AMD. (The i9-14900K consumes as a lot as 253 watts, identical to its predecessor.)

Intel’s highest-end 14th-gen chip might get a lot of the consideration, however discerning avid gamers could also be extra within the i7-14700K, which now options 20 cores (8 efficiency and 12 effectivity) and reaches as much as 5.6GHz “Turbo Enhance Max 3.0” speeds. Maybe most significantly, its $409 price ticket is properly under the 14900K’s $589.

Relating to benchmarks, Intel claims the 14900K is as much as 23 % quicker than AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X3D whereas enjoying Starfield in 1080p. The corporate additionally says that chip is as much as 54 % quicker than the identical AMD {hardware} whereas multi-tasking between After Results and Premiere Professional. (That comparability could also be a bit unfair, since Intel examined an Auto Reframe process in Premiere Professional that works along with its UHD graphics, one thing that AMD’s graphics do not assist with.)

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Maybe extra helpful than uncooked benchmark comparisons, Intel additionally says the i9-14900K was in a position to attain over 100fps in Whole Struggle: Warhammer III whereas enjoying, streaming and recording in 1080p with extremely graphics settings. That sport can also be optimized particularly for its 14th-gen {hardware}, so you possibly can’t anticipate the identical outcomes with each title.

For those who’re nonetheless wanting to overclock, Intel can also be making that simpler with its new XTU AI Help characteristic, which can solely be out there on the i9-4900K. In a demo for media, an Intel consultant confirmed off how the XTU app can shortly decide the perfect processor core voltages, motherboard energy settings and “different tuning knobs” to find out protected efficiency speeds. They famous that Intel had educated its AI overclocking mannequin on a whole bunch of CPUs, in addition to quite a lot of motherboard and cooler choices (together with a little bit of liquid cooling). As soon as the AI tuning course of is full, you possibly can roll with its instructed settings or use them as a baseline for additional overclocking.

One characteristic you will not see in these new 14th-gen chips? An NPU (neural processing unit) for AI acceleration. Oddly sufficient, the corporate’s upcoming Core Extremely cell chips will characteristic an NPU, which permits issues like Home windows Studios Results for AI-powered background blurs in video chats. It is sensible for Intel’s first NPU to seem in its new structure, whereas the 14th-gen desktop chips are beefed-up variations of final 12 months’s {hardware}. Nonetheless, it’s kind of odd for its priciest desktop {hardware} to overlook out on one thing mere laptops will see subsequent 12 months.

Intel’s 14th-gen desktop chips shall be out there from retailers and system producers on October seventeenth.

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