Intel’s Raptor Lake Refresh desktop processors have been noticed in one other leak, and this time spherical we now have some extra benchmarks to feast our eyes on.
On this case, the benchmarks are drawn from CrossMark (a set produced by BAPCo to offer a gauge of app efficiency and responsiveness), and we now have outcomes of each Intel’s incoming Core i9-14900K and the Core i7-14700K.
As noticed by Tom’s {Hardware}, the Core i9-14900K recorded an general rating of two,265 (add seasoning, as ever), with the Core i7-14700K hitting 1,980. Thus we are able to conclude the 14900K is round 14% quicker than the 14700K, at the very least going by this one consequence.
The 14900K is barely quicker nonetheless in among the assessments that make up the general benchmark – notably, it’s 20% faster within the responsiveness check.
What this leak additionally exhibits is the purported core counts of those Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs, and it backs up what has beforehand been aired on the rumor mill – particularly that the 14700K goes to have extra cores, 20 of them. That’ll break down to eight efficiency cores and 12 effectivity cores, with the latter being 4 greater than the 13700K.
The 14900K will hold the identical core configuration as its Raptor Lake predecessor, which occupies the quantity three spot in our checklist of the greatest processors (the 13700K is primary, by the way, to provide you some concept of how necessary these sequels are).
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Sadly, the spec particulars offered by this leak don’t cowl clock speeds, however Raptor Lake Refresh is simply anticipated to juice issues as much as a comparatively minor extent in comparison with Intel’s current-gen CPUs. One idea we’ve heard is that 14th-gen processors can be 200MHz quicker throughout a lot of the vary.
Evaluation: Why we shouldn’t give attention to the scores right here
Why aren’t we evaluating these 14th-gen processors to the outcomes of their Thirteenth-gen counterparts right here? Effectively, as a result of the latter are literally quicker within the CrossMark outcomes database.
Whereas that may appear worrying, or certainly even ridiculous, keep in mind that these Raptor Lake Refresh processors are nonetheless engineering samples – or that’s what we presume, anyway – and clearly not operating at their full efficiency ranges. In any case, there’s no approach Intel would launch a brand new era of silicon that’s slower than the earlier vary of CPUs, for apparent causes.
For a similar cause, there’s no level in drawing comparisons between these leaked outcomes and AMD Ryzen CPUs.
Don’t fear concerning the uncooked efficiency facet of the equation right here. The worth of this leak is in displaying that the Core i7-14700K does certainly up the effectivity core depend – or at the very least, that is yet one more indication that that is the case – and that it’s not too far off the efficiency of the 14900K. Really, we’d anticipate the hole to be a bit nearer – primarily based on current-gen Raptor Lake ends in CrossMark – however there could possibly be one thing else happening behind the scenes right here.
As ever with spilled benchmarks, we should be cautious about drawing an excessive amount of in the best way of conclusions.
The opposite attention-grabbing factor about this leak is its very existence, and the truth that we’re now seeing a number of Raptor Lake Refresh benchmarks popping up on the grapevine (there was a Cinebench leak for the 14700K final month). As the discharge of any {hardware} nears, extra leaks seem, and so this can be a trace that Intel’s launch date for 14th-gen CPUs is nearing. October – the rumored month for these chips to hit the cabinets – seems to be an excellent guess at this level.
In any case, we simply heard that Intel’s Innovation occasion in September will see Staff Blue reveal Meteor Lake processors, that are the laptop computer chips to run alongside Raptor Lake Refresh on the desktop – so certainly the latter will get a point out, too? We will see.