In the world of Intel Core CPUs, nothing is more evocative than the “KS” ending.
The KS processors have represented the best that Intel can put on the field for a few generations, they are the most selected CPUs that it is possible to produce (at least according to the Santa Clara engineering team) and they enjoy crazy performance.
To counteract this much power, however, there are high consumption and heat: the selection that Intel manages to make at the source, a real silicon lottery, on the one hand allows end users the honor of putting at home processors driven by exaggerated frequencies but on the other forces you to use equally extreme cooling solutions.
Today, with the appearance online of the acronym “KS” applied to a new generation CPU, we have the opportunity to discover some more details of a processor which, according to the screens we have seen, is capable of overcome the 6 GHz barrier.
A real beast
If the frequency of the new Core i9 14900KS will appeal to many, consumption and temperatures will be a big headache
The arrival of this processor on OCCT can only indicate that Intel is now ready for its marketing and that the first samples are already in the hands of sector operators to carry out the final stability tests.
This means that certainly some overclockers and journalists may already be analyzing the performance, a sign that we could expect further news on this matter in the coming weeks.
For now, the data we have is scant and must be contextualized, I am obviously not able to give a precise indication of the goodness of this CPU and we will have to wait for further and more in-depth tests to draw a conclusion.
To date we know that the new Intel Core i9 14900KS maintains the technical data of its “little brother” 14900K unchanged, to which it adds a higher Turbo frequency (6.2 GHz, 200 MHz more) and a higher TDP (150 watts versus 125 watts).
What is astonishing, in addition to the truly monstrous frequency, is seeing the peak consumption entry from OCCT above 400 watts: cooling this processor will definitely not be easy.
Obviously this peak represents consumption in an extremely short test, which does not allow us to draw the necessary conclusions, but putting into perspective what we can already see from the normal Core i9 14900K, these 200 MHz could make us sweat the proverbial sweats.
BIOS settings
The main technical characteristics of the 14900KS