News Intel quietly releases China exclusive Core i7-14790F 'Black Edition' CPU

[Admin]

Intel releases its second 14th generation Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs exclusively with the Chinese market within a few days, continuing its tradition of having a handful of exclusive variants for the domestic market. Apart from a black colored box and CPU cooler, there's no real difference compared to universally available variants.

Intel quietly releases China exclusive Core i7-14790F 'Black Edition' CPU
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[RealBeast]

With a CPU cooler for a 219W part, interesting.

 

[TCA_ChinChin]

What a weird part. Less E cores with more smartcache but less l2 cache due to less e-core. Wonder what the prices will be like and how it performs vs the 14700f.

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

Intel has quietly released two new CPU variants in its 14th generation Raptor Lake Fresh desktop CPU family, though these are destined to be available only in a single market- China. The Chipmaker releases the Core i7-14790F, a second variant of its series, with the first one being the Core i7-14700F released a few days ago.

I guess you should check the basic facts before posting.

Intel did not release 2 new SKUs for the APAC/Chinese region, but only one in the core i7 segment. The Core i7-14700F has already been available globally, unlike this new 14790F entrant.

Both are different SKUs. The only other Chinese-exclusive SKU launched recently was the "Intel Core i5-14490F". There have also been the Core i7-13790F and Core i5-12490F "Black Edition" releases in the past before.

Btw, also correct the typo. These are Raptor Lake "Refresh" parts, and not Raptor Lake Fresh. Although, these might be China-specific "Black Edition" SKUs, some models do enter the US/UK and EU markets too.

Currently, the Core i7-14790K is priced at ￥2909 at JD which roughly translates to US$ 409.30

Typo. It's the F variant, not K.

Apart from the increased 36 MB of L3 cache (vs 33 MB), there seems little incentive to purchase this SKU due to it's lower overall core & L2 cache counts. Even the Core i5-14490F features a higher boost clock and more cache than the Core i5-14400F.

Although, basically E-cores do not have a very huge impact on gaming performance, the extra 3MB of L3 cache might deliver some performance benefit during some of the gaming workloads, if not all.

 

[wr3zzz]

These are probably 'tweener chips that failed the higher spec test during packaging operations in China. There isn't enough volume to create a new global tier but the Chinese domestic market is big enough to absorb the lot locally so Intel creates the China special to extract more value instead of down spec these odd lots into a cheaper lower global product tier.

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

Correct the very first paragraph in this article like I highlighted above in my previous comment. It's still not corrected/edited. It's embarrassingly misleading.

Intel did not release 2 new SKUs for the APAC/Chinese region, but only one in the core i7 segment. The Core i7-14700F has already been available globally, unlike this new 14790F entrant.