Intel introduces the 14th Generation Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs with some new features

The new fourteenth generation Intel CPUs arrived on the market on Tuesday (17) with the same prices as the previous generation and average gains of just 2% compared to rival AMD; I wait

A Intel announced this Monday (16) its new Raptor Lake Refresh processors. Hypothesized and the subject of numerous rumors in recent weeks, the 14th generation CPUs confirm practically all the rumors that have circulated up to now.

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The most important is that this new family of Intel processors does not bring important innovations in terms of engineering and architecture. The components are essentially the same as the 13th generation, as most of the changes were made at the manufacturing process level.

In a press presentation, Roger Chandler, Intel’s vice president and general manager of high-performance workstations and solutions, admitted that the company has invested its efforts in perfecting the 10nm manufacturing process, called Intel 7, which has now reached the final stage. and from 2024 it will give way to 7 nm lithography. Thanks to this, in general the blue team managed to bring processors clocked up to 6 GHz in boost and up to 54% higher performance in specific use situations.

Core i7-14700K: the big winner

There has been a lot of speculation about whether Intel will finally make the Core i3 jump from 8 to 12 cores. This would represent a huge performance gain in the brand’s entry-level line and would put the competition on the spot. It turned out that the change did not happen, and the company’s efforts were directed towards another model.

The Core i7-14700K was chosen by Intel to receive the biggest improvements in the Raptor Lake Refresh lineup. The architectural changes and refinements have made the model gain 4 more cores in terms of efficiency, going from 16 hybrid cores (8+8) and 24 threads to 20 hybrid cores (8+12) and 28 threads, and reaching a clock speed of 5.6 GHz. — 200 MHz higher than the Core i7-13700K.

In this way, the Core i7-14700K further closes the gap compared to the Core i9-14900K, both in terms of technical specifications and performance. In other words, it should attract even more attention from those who want a new CPU for gaming, creating content and high-performance professional activities, but without spending a lot to buy the top of the range.

Raptor Lake Refresh: incremental news

Aside from the technical leap presented by the Core i7-14700K, the new Intel Raptor Lake Refresh only has incremental new features. On average, the processors have gained 200 MHz more clock speed and now come with native support for Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4, Thunderbolt 5.0 and USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 at 20 Gbps.

Application Performance Optimization (APO) is another new feature used by Intel in the 14th generation. Combined with Dynamic Tuning and Thread Director technologies, it can direct, in real time, resources to the correct core to extract even more performance from processors in games.

The new Intel Raptor Lake Refresh processors are still compatible with DDR4 memories, but those who want to obtain even greater performance can use DDR5 modules of over 8,000 MT/s in the configuration. And if that wasn’t enough, the company announced that the Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) now automatically overclocks with the help of artificial intelligence. With the new feature, the goal is for the tool to be more assertive and offer simple options to increase the processor clock with a single click.

Initially, XTU with the help of artificial intelligence is limited to the Core i9-14900K/KF, but Intel promised to expand the functionality to other processors from the K line of 14th generation processors.

Beyond that, the new processors retain support for motherboards with 600 and 700 series chipsets and LGA-1700 sockets. In other words, today those who own 12th and 13th generation Intel CPUs will be able to upgrade to the 14th generation and reuse the rest of the setup.

Raptor Lake update performance

In a press presentation, Intel showed off the graphics performance of the new Raptor Lake Refresh for both gaming and productivity.

In the comparison prepared by the manufacturer, the Core i9-14900K has up to 23% more performance than the AMD Ryzen 7950X3D while managing to deliver up to 21% higher frame rates per second in games like Metro Exodus and Starfield. On average, however, the real gain is much more discreet: just 2%.

For content creators, testing compared both the Core i7-14700K and Core i9-14900K to the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X. In this specific battery, the i5 performed up to 14% better than its AMD rival, while the i9 delivered up to 17% more performance. On average, however, the gains were 3.8% and 9.5%, respectively.

In the generation comparison, the new Core i7 performs up to 63 percent better than the i7-12700K from two years ago and 22 percent better than the i7-13700K in After Effects.

Finally, in a less symmetrical comparison to measure the multitasking capabilities of the Core i9-14900K, Intel paired the component with the Ryzen 9 7950X3D to edit one video in 8K while another was rendered in upscaling. The result was a 54% higher performance than its rival.

Have you missed intergenerational comparisons in games? Well, Intel didn’t present it. Nonetheless, in a Q&A session after the press presentation, the company confirmed what many have long speculated: the jump in gaming performance between the 13th and 14th generations is “less than double digits,” i.e., less than 10%.

Price and availability

With a very discreet strategy, Intel has confirmed that the new fourteenth generation Raptor Lake Refresh processors will arrive in stores this Tuesday (17). As in 2022, also in this case only 6 models will initially be made available to the public.

According to the company, the idea is to focus first and foremost on the audience of enthusiasts, professionals, content producers and gamers who are looking for high performance and want to immediately upgrade their configuration. The other CPUs in the family will be announced in the first quarter of 2024, probably during CES.

Contrary to a number of price increase rumors, the new 14th generation Intel Core processors retain the same labels as the 13th generation, starting at $294 with the i5-14600KF and going up to $589 with the i9- 14900K.

In Brazil, the new Intel Raptor Lake Refresh processors have not yet had official prices.

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