News Core i9-14900KS at 6.2 GHz May Be The Fastest Consumer CPU

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Israel-based retailer PC-Online lists Intel's unannounced Core i9-14900KS in multiple prebuilt systems on the company's online store.

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[emike09]

More cache and more PCI-e lanes and I'm in.

 

[hotaru251]

more PCI-e lanes

literally only thing I care about anymore....cpu's are already fast enoguh for basically anything a normal person needs em to be...the issue is becoming limited lanes.

 

[jonathan1683]

I agree I have been dealing with no available pciex lanes all today. Very annoying, next PC i get I want it to be HEDT. Hopefully intel brings back the xtreme cpus

 

[emike09]

I agree I have been dealing with no available pciex lanes all today. Very annoying, next PC i get I want it to be HEDT. Hopefully intel brings back the xtreme cpus

They kinda did this year with the Xeon W 2400 And 3400 series CPUs, but it's a bit lack luster. They're powerful, some SKUs are overclockable, with quad or octo-channel memory, 64 to 112 PCI-e lanes, but for pure CPU speed, something like the i9-14900k, 7800x3d, or 7900x3d offers more for substantially less unless you need pure multi-threaded performance vs single thread performance. Great for workstation use, not as good for gaming or applications that need that single threaded performance.

I just have a hard time justifying upgrading my i9-10920X X299 platform to the W-2400 platform. Sure, you get DDR5, PCIe-5 with more lanes, and a little better performance out of the CPU, but $1400 for the w5-2465x alone, plus a good mobo, new cooler, and new RAM makes that hard to justify. Looking at around $2500 for the upgrade.

X299 was a beast, and was affordable compared to the W790 platform. Also, some of us don't care about power consumption - Drop the E-cores and just give us P-cores. P-cores are wasted silicon. This is where HEDT thrives.

 

[P.Amini]

Two things makes me kinda skeptical:
1. It first announced for Israel which is in the middle of a war
2. Pairing a 14900KS(pecial) with a 3200MHz RAM is super weird

 

[TerryLaze]

Two things makes me kinda skeptical:
1. It first announced for Israel which is in the middle of a war
2. Pairing a 14900KS(pecial) with a 3200MHz RAM is super weird

Israel has one of the mayor fabs from intel, so somebody might just know somebody and got the inside news about the ks, that they advertise it doesn't mean that it will come out there first, it's usually a global launch.

2. oems.... also for ddr4 3200 is the official maximum for the 14900k so if they want to sell a PC with warranty they would have to stick with official numbers.

 

[P.Amini]

Israel has one of the mayor fabs from intel, so somebody might just know somebody and got the inside news about the ks, that they advertise it doesn't mean that it will come out there first, it's usually a global launch.

2. oems.... also for ddr4 3200 is the official maximum for the 14900k so if they want to sell a PC with warranty they would have to stick with official numbers.

Intel® Core™ i9 processor 14900K (36M Cache, up to 6.00 GHz) - Product Specifications | Intel

Intel® Core™ i9 processor 14900K (36M Cache, up to 6.00 GHz) quick reference with specifications, features, and technologies.

www.intel.com

 

[jonathan1683]

They kinda did this year with the Xeon W 2400 And 3400 series CPUs, but it's a bit lack luster. They're powerful, some SKUs are overclockable, with quad or octo-channel memory, 64 to 112 PCI-e lanes, but for pure CPU speed, something like the i9-14900k, 7800x3d, or 7900x3d offers more for substantially less unless you need pure multi-threaded performance vs single thread performance. Great for workstation use, not as good for gaming or applications that need that single threaded performance.

I just have a hard time justifying upgrading my i9-10920X X299 platform to the W-2400 platform. Sure, you get DDR5, PCIe-5 with more lanes, and a little better performance out of the CPU, but $1400 for the w5-2465x alone, plus a good mobo, new cooler, and new RAM makes that hard to justify. Looking at around $2500 for the upgrade.

X299 was a beast, and was affordable compared to the W790 platform. Also, some of us don't care about power consumption - Drop the E-cores and just give us P-cores. P-cores are wasted silicon. This is where HEDT thrives.

I never considered a xeon, my PC is mostly for gaming I just don't have enough lanes for my add on cards/NVME SSDs I think they will have to do something soon since the nvme drives are taking up so many lanes now.

 

[emike09]

I never considered a xeon, my PC is mostly for gaming I just don't have enough lanes for my add on cards/NVME SSDs I think they will have to do something soon since the nvme drives are taking up so many lanes now.

I hear ya. I mostly game as well but do a lot in Premiere and After Effects also. HEDT on X299 was pretty much Xeon without the Xeon branding, single socket only, and unlocked multipliers. Most boards even supported ECC memory. 4 NVMe drives using Intel vROC, an RTX 4090, capture card, 10G NIC - there's 40 lanes right there.

Plus, with PCI-e 5, you can run in x8 or even x4 mode for x16 devices and not experience bandwidth issues, so that stretches those lanes out a fair bit. I just wish consumer platforms would adopt more lanes.

Honestly, I'm rarely CPU bound in gaming with the i9-10920X @ 4.8ghz. Flight Simulator is probably the most demanding game on the CPU since it's limited by a single thread. I mostly want something newer for production apps.