Intel Core i9-14900K, Core i7-14700K & Core i5-14600K Review, Gaming Benchmarks

[Music] welcome back to Harbor unbox today we're checking out Intel's latest generation of Core Series processors now this 14th generation is launching with the core I 9 14 900k core I74 700k and core i54 600k and we have all three of them on hand for testing now you might be wondering what Intel's new 14th generation CPUs have to offer what makes this generation different to the previous generation well before we find out today's video is sponsored by Asus and their fantastic Rog stxs XG 27 aqm gaming monitor if you're after a 27in 1440p display with super fast 300 HZ capabilities look no further than the XG 27 aqm packing variable overdrive and excellent response time tuning this IPS LCD monitor offers great motion Clarity for everything from fast pce multiplayer games to the latest AAA Blockbusters in our review we also found it to be quite a versatile display with impressive color accuracy and a decent range of color controls all at a mid-range price point to learn more about the Asus XG 27 aqr click the link in the description below okay so as far as I can tell there's really very little to nothing on offer here and that's not a huge surprise we've known for a very long time now that the 14th series of core processors that was going to be a raptor Lake ref ref fresh so in other words just a refresh of the previous 13th generation which essentially means you're getting the exact same thing with a small bump in stock clocks so there's little to no IPC Improvement here no real tweaks to the Silicon it's pretty straightforward refresh the biggest change can be seen when looking at the core i7 14700 K which now has an additional cluster of eor so four more ecores taking the total to 12 the core i5 though that still has eight ecor and the core I 9 16 e cores though they do now clock 100 MHz higher for the turbo and that means on paper the key highlights for the core i 94900 k include a 3% increase to the peak turbo frequency and a 2% frequency increase for the Eco the 14600 K that gets a 4% frequency bump to the PECO turbo and a 22% increase for the Eco so yeah that's what we're looking at here actually in addition to that Intel is also claiming some software optimization for the 14th generation series which for reasons that almost certainly won't make sense aren't available for 12th and 13th gen owners what Intel are calling Intel application optimization is a new policy within Intel's Dynamic tuning technology that optimizes performance for select games by directing application resources in real time as an example Intel claims this leads to a 133% uplift in Rainbow Six Siege and a 16% uplift in Metro Exodus as it stands right now though Rainbow Six Siege and Metro Exodus are the only two games supported by this new feature though Intel say they are working with game developers to add additional titles now the Intel application optimization will preload via the Intel Dynamic tuning technology driver on motherboards that have DT enabled in the Bios and given the very limited support for this new feature we won't actually be testing it in today's video as neither the games that support it are included in our sampler benchmarks but this is certainly something that we can test in the future especially if it starts to support more games as Intel claims this then is Intel's attempt to steal back the gaming performance Crown from AMD and that really does appear to be the primary goal here with the 14th gen series outside of the core i7 getting a few more ecores so let's get on with it to see what they have for testing I'm using an Asus Rog stricks RTX 490 graphics card running game ready Drive version 64443 and all the data shown in this video was recorded within the last week so that means all of the data is up to date using the latest bars revisions Windows 11 version drivers and so on the LJ 1700 processors were tested using DDR 57200 cl34 memory and the am5 processors with ddr5 6000 cl30 memory okay let's get into it starting with the Cent bench multicore test we find exactly what we're expecting based on the paper spec the 14900 K is wait for it identical to the 13900 K as both throttle to the same frequency after 10 minutes of load the 14700 K did offer a 19% boost over the 13700 K thanks to a 50% increase in eor and that got it much closer to amd's 79 50x then we see the 14600 K is 7% faster than the 13600 K and the small bumping clock speeds will be helping here as this model doesn't thermal throttle using a 360 mm AIO so that's good what's not good is the power consumption and although we're going to take a detailed look at power usage when gaming I thought I'd go back and record the average power usage for the relevant CPUs in this video the figures here are insane the 14900 K that averaged a total system consumption of 533 Watts that's almost 50% more than the 7950 X for comparable performance and nearly twice the power of the 7950 X 3D at a 92% increase for just 5% more performance that really is insane and the 14700 K it's really no better total system usage there that averaged 471 Watts which is a 70% increase over the 7950 x3d and that's for 6% less performance in that example the 14600 K system though that did consume 310 Watts which makes it reasonably efficient when compared to say the 7700 X as that's 17% more power for almost 30% more performance now looking at single core performance we do see a tiny 2% increase for the, 1400k over the 1300k the 14700 K that was 4% faster than the 13700 K and the 14600 K was 3% faster than the 13600 K so about what you'd expect based on the clock speeds that we looked at earlier now running the blender open data Benchmark confirms what we found with Cent bench the, 1400k is basically our identical to its 13th gen model then the 14700 K with its extra e calls is 24% faster than the 13700 K so that's nice and really the only noteworthy Improvement here as the 14600 K was just 6% faster than the 13600 K moving on to the seven zip compression performance we find the core i9s and core i5s delivering virtually identical performance while the 14 700k was 177% faster than the 13th gen version and it's a similar story for the de compression results the 1400k was just 3% faster than the 1300k though the 14600 K was 7% faster than the 13600 k then we see a 23% increase for the 14700 K over its 13th gen version again thanks to the inclusion of more ecor Adobe After Effects provides the, 1400k with its biggest win yet as it was a whole 6% faster than the 13900 K so that's actually good based on what we've seen so far the 14600 k that was 4% faster than the 13th gen version and then the 14700 K was just 3% faster than its 13th gen version as the eals are pretty well useless here photoshop's another application that really only uses the peor and here the 1400k was 14% faster than the 1300k while the i7 was 6% faster than its predecessor and the I5 7% faster the last Adobe application we tested is Premier Pro and here the 149 hurrik which is 3% % faster than the 1300k while the 14700 K was only 6% faster than the 13700 k then we see that the core i5 was just as underwhelming offering a mere 3% improvement over the 13th gen model now the last application Benchmark that we have is a browser Benchmark so more of a general use type test and the results here are pretty typical the 14th gen I9 offered a mere 3% uplift 5% for the i7 and then 7% for the I5 now for the gaming benchmarks and we'll start with factorio the factorio box is the typical sort of factorio Benchmark that most seem to run and it's the version that we've used previously but it has been brought to my attention that this can be a misleading test as it's based on a very small map and doesn't really represent performance in this title especially for the bigger maps and being that it is a smaller map also means that it fits snug within the 3D vcash for parts like the 7800x 3D and 7950 x3d along with the 5800 x3d though the Dual CCD Parts like the 7950 x3d are still a bit broken here anyway in this example the 7800x 3D is almost 50% faster than the 149k but because this is potentially a misleading test let's rerun the numbers using a bigger map and doing so dramatically changes the numbers and now the 14900 K and 13900 K are the fastest processors tested just beating the 7800 x30 by a 2% margin when compared to the 13th and 14th gen models though we are looking at identical performance in this test okay time for some FPS numbers and we'll start with Boulders Gate 3 which has been benchmarked in the city of Boulders gate and this is a very CPU demanding section of the game firstly the 14th gen models they're not really offering anything in the way of extra performance over the 13th gen versions we're seeing up to 3% in this example and that's a problem for Intel as it means the zen4 3D vcash Parts through over 15% faster the 7950 X 3D for example that was 177% faster than the 14900 K and while running these benchmarks I measured the average total system power consumption and here we see despite being 177% faster the ryzen 9 7950 x3d actually lowered the total system draw by 15% making it significantly more efficient than the 149k in this example next up we have Hogwarts Legacy with ultra rate tracing enabled and here the 7950 X 3D was just 3% faster than the 14900 K though the 7800 x30 that was 5% faster when compared to the 13900 K the 14900 K boosted performance by perc and sadly we saw the same insignificant gains for the 14 700k and 14 600k again though it's power consumption that's a bit of an issue for Intel despite being slightly slower than the 150x 3D the 14 900k did raise total system power usage by 21% which is a massive increase in power now despite being an AMD sponsored title Starfield runs very well on Intel processes and as a result the 149k was a massive 177% faster than the 7950 X 3D and that's despite offering no performance improvement over the 13900 K interestingly though the new 14 700k that was 8% faster than the 13 700k in this test while the 14600 K that offered no real improvement over the 13600 k then if we again look at Power we see that although the 14900 K was 17% faster than the 750x 3D it pushed total system usage 40% higher in order to achieve that meaning this example the 3D vcash part was still more efficient moving on to cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty here we see the 3D vcash processors again perform really well for example the 700 x30 that was 10% faster than the 1400k while the 7950 x30 that was 7% faster unfortunately though when compared to their 13th gen versions The 1400k and 14700 K provided just a 2% uplift and then we see just a mere 1% uplift from the 14600 K so obviously some very weak performance gains there and then we're looking at Power we see at the 14600 K match the total system usage of the 7800x 3D despite the AMD processor being almost 20% faster in this example this also highlights the primary issue with the Core unnown Series the 1400k that pushed total system usage almost 30% higher than the 7800 x3d for Less performance frame rates in The Last of Us Part One were very competitive between the AMD and Intel processors that said we also saw no real change in performance from the 13th gen to the 14th gen processors outside of what can be accounted for by a small bump in frequency and here we see that AMD zen4 3D vcash processors are extremely efficient in the last of us matching the performance of the core i7 and I9 processors while consuming significantly less power for example the 14 k that pushed total system usage to 657 wats and that's an almost 40% increase over the similar performing 7800x 3D the 3D vcash processors are also very impressive in Star Wars Judo Survivor with the 7800x 3D delivering 14% more performance than the 14900 K meanwhile the core I9 was just 4% faster than the 1300k while the i7 and I5 models offered no performance gain over their predecessors then when compared to the non-3d vcash models the Raptor Lake CPUs they did perform well the 14600 k for example that was faster than the 7950 X once again though it's power consumption that's a big problem for Intel the 14900 K it pushed total system usage to 571 watts and that's a 5% increase over the 1300k and a massive 27% increase over the 7800x 3D next up we have ACC which is a total that's well known to really enjoy the 3D vcash processors and we're certainly seeing that here to devast stating effect for Intel the 7800 x30 for example it's 30% faster than the 1400k and 14700 K and neither 14th gen model was much faster than the 13th gen versions still when compared to the standard zen4 processors the Raptor Lake CPUs they're quite impressive the 149k for example that was 10% faster than the 7950 x given the massive performance Advantage the 3D vcash CPUs enjoyed in this title it's a given that they'll be more power efficient I that said the, 1400k only increased total system usage by 133% and this is because ACC is a very lightly threaded title next up we have Spider-Man remastered using the high quality preset with high rate tracing enabled and again the 14th gen parts are offering very little over their 13th gen models and this meant the 149 hurrik couldn't quite knock off the 7800 X 3D and it was well down on the 79 50x 3D this also means that in this example the 4 900k increased total system power draw by almost 50% when compared to the similar performing 7800x 3D that is just insane even when compared to the faster 750x 3D you're looking at an almost 40% increase in power usage for the entire system that is nuts next up we have a plague Tower requium and again the new 14th gen cpws have little to nothing to offer over their previous generation parts that means like the 13900 K the 14900 K it averaged 150 FPS making it slower than the 7700x and 15% slower than the 7800 x3d the 14900 K 14700 K and 14600 K were all very evenly matched in this example though that was also the case for the 13th gen models power consumption isn't nearly as bad in a plague tale requium as what we've seen in almost all other titles granted the 7800 X 3D was faster but even so seeing the 149k push total system usage 14% higher it's a good result again compared to what we've seen in most other titles Assassin's Creed Mirage is a game where the 7950 X 3D should dominate just as the 7800x 3D does but there appears to be a scheduling issue here as it's not much faster than the standard 795x in any case the 7950 x3d did still match the 14700 K and 14900 K while the 7800x 3D was 16% faster than Intel's new flagship again power is a major weakness of the Raptor Lake CPUs and here we see the 14900 K pushes total system usage to 503 watts and that's 25% higher than that of the 7800x 3D while the ryzen processor was actually 16% faster Watchdog Legions another blowout with the x3d chips dominating pushing the RTX 490 to around 200 FPS using the ultra quality preset meanwhile the 14900 K that was just 3% FAS than the 13900 K making the 7800 x3d 17% faster and then the 7950 x3d 21% faster the 14600 K also struggled in this title and in this example the 7600 X was 133% faster meanwhile the 14600 K and 7800x 3D consumed around the same amount of power making the 14 900k 18% more hungry when comparing total system usage finally we have Hitman 3 and here the Intel processes do perform really well though these new 14th gen models they're not exactly offering anything new here as an example the, 1400k that was just 1% faster than the 13th gen version but that did mean it was 8% faster than the 7800x 3D that all said though power consumption is again gross with the 14900 K pushing total system usage 40 7% higher than that of the 7800x 3D for amounted to 8% more performance so that is disappointing okay so here we have the 12 game average data calculated using the geom mean and previously I found the 7800x 3D to be 4% faster than the 1300k on average and now that margin has grown to 10% so what's changed exactly well apart from some aesa code updates which have made some small improvements to Performance I think the biggest difference is the games list previously we had titles such as csgo and the rift breaker where the 7800 X3 didn't perform that well that said though Horizon zero Dawn was also dropped from the testing and that was a strong title for the x3d chips for this test though almost all of the newly added titles ran very well on the x3d CPUs especially the 7800 x3d which saw good gains in Assassin's Creed Mirage Boulders Gate 3 and Star Wars Joo Survivor with the only bad title for AMD being Starfield cyberpunk 2077 has also been updated with an smt fix for ryen processors which boosts performance in our tests by around 10% in the end the 700 x3d was 7% faster than the 1400k and 10% faster than the 14700 K while the 14600 K was 4% faster than the 7700x and 8% faster than the 7600 X then when compared to the 13 y models the 1400k and 14700 K were just 3% faster while the 14600 k was just a percent faster still the core i5 part remains pretty good value and also somewhat reasonable when it comes to power usage which we can take a look at now this graph right here highlights Intel's biggest issue right now which is of course power usage I'd say the best case for Intel across a reasonable range of games is for the 7800x 3D and 149k to be neck and neck and yet in order to achieve that level of performance the Intel system will suck down around 30% more power which is pretty crazy the core i7 range has also become less and less reasonable over the years and now we're finding the 14700 K consumes roughly as much power as the 13900 K did when gaming again the 14600 K it's not bad but even so it is comparable to the 750x and 750x 3D in terms of power usage okay so given how power hungry these new 14th gen models are it probably won't shock you to learn that within seconds of running an all core workload the core 9149 K hits TJ Maxx at 100° and begins to throttle even with the Arctic liquid freezer 2 360 all when liquid cooler installed after a 30-minute Loop we recorded an average total system consumption of 533 Watts with an operating clock speed of 5.45 GHz for the PES and 4.3 GHz for the eor now the core I 74 700k it wasn't much better also hitting a CPU package temperature of 100° almost instantly after starting the Center bench test then after 30 minutes we saw an average peor frequency of 5.35 GHz with an eore frequency of 4.25 GHz and then a total system consumption averaging 471 Watts which is 30% higher than that of the 795x and 70% higher than the 750x 3D which again is insane finally we have the core i5 14600 K and and it hit a maximum package temperature of 86° which is 14° from running into the TJ Maxx and it would be really nice if we saw this kind of result from an I9 anyway this allowed the I5 to average 5.3 GHz on the peores and 4 GHz on the eor while pushing total system usage up to an average of 310 Watts before wrapping up the testing here's a quick look at some IPC tests running Boulders Gate 3 with all processors clocked at 5 GHz with a 3 GHz ring bus and the eor is disabled we see the 14900 K is around 2% faster than the 13900 K which was a 3% improvement over the 1200k so from the 12900 K to the 14900 K we're looking at a mere 6% increase in IPC and it's a similar story with the 14 700k it was just 7% faster than the 12 700k and then just 2% faster than the 13700 K meanwhile we saw a 4% uplift for the 13600 K over the 12 600k but then just a percent from the 13600 K to the 14600 K so very minor IPC gains in this game power consumption also appears to improved since the 12th generation though we aren't fixing the voltage for this testing and instead letting the motherboard handle this automatically so it's possible the 1200k was being fed More Voltage so don't read too much into this data it's merely being provided out of Interest the gains in Boulders Gate 3 were actually pretty good when compared to what we're seeing in the cinebench multicore test the 1400k was just 2% faster than the 1300k and 3% faster than the 1200k meanwhile the 14700 K that was a percent faster than the 13700 K and then we're looking at half a perent for the 14 600k over the 13 600k and the single core results are even worse there really isn't much in the way of IPC gains to be seen here I'd say Intel stagnation at its best but it's only been like 2 years so that's not true okay so there you have it the Raptor Lake refresh is pretty much just that and it certainly doesn't deserve to be called a 14th generation sorry I mean generation apart from the 14700 K which gets those few extra ecor this is a simple rebranding with some software optimizations for games for the most part this was just a complete waste of time so thanks for that Intel but at least we did get to update all of our data to include a range of new games realistically though we would rather Intel waited until they actually had a 14th generation to release rather than just rehash what was already available now you might be wondering what's the point why did Intel even bother well the reason is quite simple that reason is marketing it is all about marketing for the most part 13th gen sales they've not been great at least for the retail Market oem's likely a bit of a different story Intel's still the dominant Force there but even then sales are likely slowing down there as an example of the retail Market we have the Amazon bestell sell list for CPUs which is updated every hour and the example that you're looking at here was recorded over the weekend but it almost always looks like this and has done for years now and what you're seeing here is AMD CPUs dominating the top 10 on a major online seller with AMD taking seven of the top 10 spots oddly Intel's best seller right now is the 1100k in fourth spot which is an unusual CPU to have here but like I said this list is updated every hour in any case if you go check right now now I can almost guarantee you that you'll mostly find AMD CPUs in the top 10 so rather than heavily discount the 13th gen Parts allowing them to better compete with the ryzen 7000 series Intel has opted to disguise those parts as a flashing new 14th generation in the hope that this will boost interest in their desktop processes and speaking of prices the 14 900k that is set to come in at around $600 us so about the same price as the 13900 K which can now be had for $570 us and that's a rough price point for Intel given that the 750x 3D is at $650 us right now while the 7800 X3 that can be had for just $370 making it by far the best value option for gamers then if it's productivity that you're interested in the 750x it's really hard to beat at $580 as the 16 big cores if you will often end up being faster for complex workloads now the 14 700k that's a nice upgrade over the 13700 K and I'm not saying if you had a 13700 K you'd upgrade to the 14 700k I mean more if you were going to buy a 13 700k but hadn't done so yet for roughly or what should roughly be the same money the same MSRP the 14 700k is a nice upgrade though while the 13 700k is meant to cost around $420 us it can be reliably found down around 36 $65 right now so if the 14700 K jumps in at $420 it will be competing directly with the 7900x and that's a matchup that suits the Intel processor rather well if your priority is productivity then I think the core i7 is the better buy and in fact the same is also true for gaming but if your focus is gaming then the cheaper 7800 x30 instantly becomes the go-to option then there's the core I 5 14600 K which is set to cost $330 us but again the 13600 K can be had for $285 right now making it the better buy given they are essentially the same CPU and looking across our productivity benchmarks the 14600 K can be seen mixing it up with the ryzen 7 7700x which cost $300 right now for gaming the core i5 was generally faster though we're only talking about just 4% faster on average across the 12 games tested so overall The Experience here is going to be much the same and then I guess summarizing all of this in a nutshell the advantage of the Intel CPUs is generally strong performance I'd say performance was very consistent across a wide range of applications and games so that's good the key disadvantages though when compared to the competing AMD Parts is the much higher power consumption and I really can't stress that enough the power consumption of these Intel Parts is just ridiculous and then there's the platform which as we've known for a long time now it's effectively dead moving forward as in there will be no more LJ 1700 processes and really that was true after the 13th gen series arrived given that the 14th gen is nothing more than a refresh so if you were to buy a core i7 14 700k for example you will need a new motherboard if you wish to upgrade Beyond a 14900 K in the future on the other hand amd's am5 platform that will support future CPUs how many is unclear at this point but the potential to slot in what might be an 8800 X 3D for example on your existing am5 motherboard that would be a nice bonus whether or not am5 will be as successful as am4 was is yet to be seen so I wouldn't weigh your decision too heavily on this one but it is a factor for sure at the end of the day an official price cut from Intel for their 13th gen range would have been world's more exciting than what we ultimately got so that's a bit of a shame of course Intel does want to try and drop interest in their products without reducing margins and the sort of fake 14th generation is an attempt at doing just that and that's going to do it for this video If you enjoyed it please do give it a like subscribe for more content don't think there'll be too much more 14th gen content on the channel though I do plan on doing a dedicated sort of in-depth look at IPC between the last few generations and then maybe sort of a a look at the 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Length: 30min 34sec (1834 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 17 2023