The rumors and speculations about an Intel Core i9-14900K that was particularly well selected using “binning” and which, according to tradition, will be launched as the Core i9-14900KS, have come true. Intel’s crowbar, which is supposed to take back the gaming crown with all its might from the Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Ryzen 9 7950X3D, has now been spotted in a benchmark database.
Crowbar with high 6.2 GHz*
While the current top model, the Intel Core i9-14900K, basically adopts the specifications of the selected Core i9-13900KS and therefore offers a very high turbo clock frequency of up to 6 GHz*, the upcoming Core i9-14900KS even reaches up to that to 6.2 GHz*. The Core i processors of the current generation “Raptor Lake” and “Raptor Lake Refresh” are already so highly developed and consume so much energy under full load that observers often doubted a selected top model with even more clock speeds. But Intel’s new crowbar is coming, as an entry in the OCCT database shows.
Source: OCCT *) The maximum Turbo clock frequency is the maximum single core clock frequency at which the processor can be operated with Intel Turbo Boost Technology and, if available, with Intel Thermal Velocity Boost.
TDP/PBP (“PL1”) increases to 150 watts
As expected, the TDP/PBP (“PL1”) will be increased from 125 to 150 watts and will therefore be another 20 percent more than the previous top-of-the-line Core model, the Intel Core i9-14900K, which PCGH had already tested. Even somewhat hasty retailers had already listed the Core crowbar on their website, but had to correct and withdraw this information shortly afterwards.
Intel Core i9-14900KS: spearhead with 6.2 GHz listed in stores for the first time
The Core i9-14900KS, probably intended as a limited spearhead for Intel’s portfolio, with 6.2 GHz has now appeared in stores for the first time.
The upcoming Core i9-14900KS will not be able to change the fairly clear assessment of the refresh CPUs, which the PCGH editorial team summarized with “These processors could have been saved.”
Package power is up to 400 watts and more
The OCCT benchmarks show that the average CPU package power, which has virtually no limits with up to a theoretical 4,096 watts for the Core i9-14900KS, is around 330 watts and under peak loads it can also reach more than 400 watts can increase. The KS model will not be a new efficiency king. The OCCT benchmarks were carried out with full AVX load.
Source: OCCT The crazy consumption is, as expected, also reflected in the temperatures of the CPU and causes it to boil at an average of 97 °Celsius and a maximum of 101 °Celsius during OCCT’s benchmark. How the Core i9-14900KS, which did its work on an MSI MAG Z790 Tomahawk WIFI, was cooled has not been reported.
Source: OCCT If the current Core i9-14900K with a maximum of 6 GHz and 125 watts is used, it is clear that the Core i9-14900KS should set new “best values” in terms of power consumption, power loss and temperatures.
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Those: OCCT-Datenbank via Wccftech