The Intel Core i9 14900KS launch is upon us, with the corporate’s closing ‘i9’ branded chip now available for purchase. The brand new CPU breaks a number of data, each good and dangerous, because it’s the fastest-clocked gaming CPU chip the corporate has ever offered nevertheless it’s additionally probably the most power-hungry.
Intel‘s newest contender for a spot on our greatest gaming CPU information is seeking to wrestle prime spot on that checklist from the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, a chip that has held onto its crown because the second it launched over a 12 months in the past. It makes use of an additional massive dose of L3 cache positioned proper on prime of the CPU die to supply its unimaginable gaming efficiency. Nonetheless, Intel has taken a reasonably differne strategy with the 14900KS.
Intel’s new flagship CPU, then, is a monster 24-core CPU packing in 8 of the corporate’s extra highly effective P-Cores and 16 of the extra environment friendly E-Cores. These zip alongside at a record-breaking 6.2GHz – a full 1.15GHz quicker than the 7800X3D and 200MHz quicker than the 14900K.
This mixture of a great deal of cores and an enormous clock velocity present additionally record-breaking ranges of multi-threaded CPU efficiency. Evaluations by the likes of Oc3D and Tom’s {Hardware} present the brand new chip outpaces the 14900K in benchmarks equivalent to Cinebench R23 by 4.6%. That additionally equates to a 30 second quicker completion time than the 13900KS and almost a minute quicker than the 14900K in a Render 4K take a look at by the previous website.
How does that translate to gaming efficiency? Effectively… it largely doesn’t. Taking the typical of its gaming exams, Tom’s {Hardware} exhibits the 7800X3D and 7900X3D nonetheless outperform Intel’s newest by a cushty margin. Furthermore, the intel chip solely achieves the body charges it does whereas consuming boatloads of energy. At peak the chip was ‘solely’ recorded as hitting 316W throughout intense multi-threaded workloads however earlier stories have proven the chip hitting 400W. Furthermore, in the identical exams, the 7950X – AMD’s quickest, most power-hungry chip – solely hit 205W whereas the 7800X3D consumed solely 80W. Sure, simply 80W!
All that energy means Intel’s new chip runs extremely popular too. We present in our 14900K overview that chip nonetheless wasn’t absolutely tamed by a 360mm AIO cooler and the state of affairs is even worse for the 14900KS. OC3D even went as far as delidding the chip – utilizing a particular $200 delid mounting plate – and nonetheless solely managed an 86°C temperature.
So, must you rush out and purchase a 14900KS in your subsequent gaming rig? No, seems to be the reply. However, in case you’re after the last word in total CPU energy proper now, and simply need the quickest CPU for many issues then the brand new $689 CPU might be the one for you, although the 14900K is a significantly better purchase at $150 cheaper.
In any other case, we’d strongly counsel testing our greatest gaming CPU information to seek out some significantly better gaming CPU choices for a variety of budgets.