Retailer lists Intel Core i9-14900KS with 6.2GHz inventory pace, a client CPU file

What just befell? Intel's Core i9-14900K Raptor Lake Refresh chip is an absolute speed demon of a CPU, but Team Blue has an even faster processor lined up – the Core i9-14900KS, that may hit 6.2 GHz out of the field. It seems that the unannounced chip has simply seemed in a few prebuilt systems on an Israeli retail web page, suggesting an respectable monitor with the aid of Intel is coming near near.

The Core i9-14900KS changed into always predicted, for the reason that Intel also released the previous-generation Core i9-13900KS. Israel-based totally store PC-Online appears to have showed this with the aid of list several pre-built PCs proposing the binned variation of the Core i9-14900K, which, with a 6.2 GHz inventory clock velocity, is concept to be the fastest patron processor ever.

PC-Online lists the Core i9-14900KS as having the 200 MHz benefit over the Core i9-14900K, the same speed bump that the Core i9-13900KS has over the Core i9-13900K. Expect the brand new 14th-gen chip to have the identical 24-center/32-thread configuration as its general version, whilst the 68MB cache (32MB L2, 36MB L3) additionally seems unchanged.

The Core i9-14900KS is also predicted to have a 150W PBP like the Core i9-13900KS and a maximum rapid of 253W, the same as the Core i9-14900K, though on the way to in all likelihood height round 300W - 320W.

Considering an excessive overclocker has already driven the Core i9-14900K to a report-breaking nine GHz, don't be surprised to see the Core i9-14900KS capturing some new statistics.

An uncommon detail of the listings is that all the systems come with DDR4-3200 RAM, while one could assume DDR5 to be paired with the Core i9-13900KS. The likely clarification is that these are enterprise-focused machines and not gaming PCs, which additionally explains the lack of a devoted graphics card and office-style cases. The other alternative is those are fake or a mistake at the retailer's element.

With Intel launching the Core i9-14900K on the same $599 rate as its Core i9-13900K predecessor, one might expect the Core i9-14900KS to cost the equal $699 because the Core i9-13900KS. We might pay attention an reputable declaration from Intel about the Core i9-14900KS both on December 14 at its AI Everywhere show in which the Meteor Lake / Emerald Rapids chips may be unveiled, or at CES 2024 in January, the equal event where Nvidia appears in all likelihood to reveal off the lengthy-rumored RTX 4000-series Super cards.

H/t: Anandtech forum