Intel declares 14th-gen Core i9-14900K, Core i7-14700K, Core i5-14600K CPUs with same charges as predecessors

What just came about? After months of rumors and leaks, Intel has ultimately introduced the 14th-gen Raptor Lake Refresh circle of relatives of processors, starting with the Core i9-14900K, Core i7-14700K, and Core i5-14600K. The huge takeaway is that contrary to previous claims, the chips will basically be the equal fee as their predecessors after they release on October 17.

Rumors that the Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs could cost up to 15% more than their 13th-gen opposite numbers have thankfully been proved wrong. The Core i9-14900K comes in at $589 with the KF variant at $564. The Core i7-14700K is $409 or $384 if you opt for the KF version without included photos, and the Core i5-14600K is $319 or $294 for the KF chip.

As formerly suggested, the Core i9-14900K can raise to 6 GHz, making it the "quickest computing device processor at volume," according to Intel; the unique-version 13900KS should pass 6 GHz at inventory, but it did not deliver at extent.

Intel is positioning the 24-core (eight overall performance, sixteen efficiency) / 32-thread Core i9-14900K as a direct competitor to the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, as shown by means of a these days leaked set of (Intel picked) benchmarks. Team Blue handiest comes out in advance with the aid of a slight margin in games at 1080p: a 2.Five% lead average, though it says the CPU gives as much as fifty four% faster overall performance in writer workflows.

What has turned out to be correct is the rumor that those 14th-gen chips don't offer a large overall performance uplift over their thirteenth-gen counterparts, however Intel would probable argue that this is due to the fact they're an optimized and delicate refresh. Team Blue says to assume "mid-to-top unmarried-digit percent" performance upgrades compared to remaining-gen Raptor Lake products.

The Core i7-14700K (8P 12E Cores / 28 threads) is the simplest one of the 3 CPUs to look an improve in the number of cores (four greater E cores) over its predecessor, at the side of greater L2/L3 cache (61MB vs. 54MB). Out of all the new chips, this one may be of maximum interest to the ones looking at upgrading.

Finally, there's the Core i5-14600K. Its 14 cores are produced from six P cores and 8 E cores (20 threads). It can improve to 5.3 GHz.

Elsewhere, Intel says its new AI Assist software in the popular XTU tuning software will use machine mastering to offer custom one-click on overclocking settings for the Core i9 models. There's also a brand new Application Optimization (APO) software that detects games and optimizes the CPU for precise titles.

Raptor Lake Refresh uses the LGA 1700 socket and will paintings in each 600- and seven-hundred-series motherboards. They assist Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth five.4, DDR5 5600, and DDR4 3200. The chips can be to be had from shops and machine developers the following day (October 17), whilst our assessment will be stay.