The 14,700K Review: Intel's Latest CPU Attempt Falls Short

AMD's closest price competitor to the 14700 K is the 7800x, but it trails behind by 4.6% in decompression. This difference is significant, especially since the stack shuffles sometimes, allowing AMD's existing and prior generation CPUs to take the lead. In contrast, the 14700 K gets ahead of the 13700 K by only 1%, a relatively small margin.

The 14,700K vs 13,700K Comparison

A comparison between the 14,700K and its predecessor, the 13,700K, reveals that while there is some performance difference, it's not drastic. The 14,700K scores 822 points in Adobe Premiere, a 3.1% improvement over the 13,700K. However, this improvement comes at a price, with the 14,700K costing more than its predecessor.

In Adobe Photoshop, the 14,700K scores 1548 points in aggregate, functionally tied with the 13900 K and the 7900x. The top spot is not as competitive, but even here, the difference between the 14700 K and the 13,700K is only 1% and 3%, respectively.

Gaming Performance

The gaming performance of the 14,700K is where it truly shines. In games like those listed in the table, the 14700 K leads the 13,700K by a significant margin, with some tests showing a gain of up to 12%. However, these gains are not universal and can vary depending on the specific game and system configuration.

Buyer Advice

When it comes to selecting a CPU, buyers have to weigh their options carefully. If you're considering the 14,700K specifically, there are only two scenarios in which it's worth the extra cost: if you need its improved performance for a particular application that sees significant gains (such as Adobe Premiere), or if you can get it at a lower price point than your existing 13,700K.

However, even in these situations, the value proposition of the 14,700K is limited. The competition from Intel's own prior generation CPUs, such as the 13900 K, and AMD's existing and prior generation CPUs, means that buyers have plenty of options to choose from.

The 14700 K: A Disappointing Launch

Intel's launch of the 14700 K comes across as desperate and weak. With a core count change that doesn't translate to significant performance gains in real-world scenarios, it's clear that Intel is trying to force its will onto the market rather than innovating.

The 11th series was not much better, with only one good CPU among many mediocre options. Even if viewed as slightly pre-overclocked 13,000 series CPUs, the 14700 K doesn't offer anything new or exciting. Buyers should be cautious when considering this CPU, especially in light of the competition from AMD's existing and prior generation offerings.

Conclusion

In conclusion, while the 14,700K has some interesting features, such as its high core count and improved performance for certain applications, it ultimately falls short in terms of overall value proposition. Buyers should be cautious when considering this CPU and explore other options that may better suit their needs and budget.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enmaking a new product is hard it requires years of development mounting and Engineering Feats new architectures sometimes even new process nodes but here at Intel we need to iterate to make our number bigger so we can sell more things we've learned that bigger number equals big customer and that's why we've Advanced our technology to have the new generation generational Improvement generationally this enables companies everywhere to make bigger number better but without all of the hard work of making the number bigger better our new 14700 K CPU is 1,000 bigger than the 13700 K which means it's 7.3% better just in name alone and that is just the beginning our expert mathematicians are still working on it but we hope to soon invent even bigger bigger number for bigger better so bigger customer buy more numbers uh hey Steve x3d is still beating us today we're reviewing the Intel i7 14700 K it's a new CPU coming out with the 14 Series this is the run one they all look the same it's okay they perform the same too so Intel's launching the 14 600k 14900 K and 14700 K and the 147 is the only one that has any chance of being even remotely a shakeup from the last generation sorry generation we're going to have to do that a lot today uh because it has changed the core count this series CPU launch is Intel's attempt to buy some more time maybe maybe from investors uh but up until they can launch something that's properly a new architecture and we think that's because amd's x3d caught Intel by surprise even back in the 58 x3d where now they are scrambling to shove anything out the door to try and retain as many gaming customers as they can up until a time at Which Intel has something properly new to launch but the 14,000 series is not actually a generational change despite a generational name change we brought you this video with store. Gamers nexus.net and our affordable GPU tear down 10piece toolkits also our solder and project mats and our large volt mod mats every time you see a GN store ad that means we're further accomplishing our goal of reducing Reliance on PC Hardware advertisers the store just got a fresh restock of tools for your PC Building including the 10piece kits with custom ground hex heads for clearing smds multiple options for Phillips and Allen drives and more our projects in solder mats have also been highly received by the community offering an extremely heat resistant surface that works for random projects or for electronics repair and finally this video is also brought to you by our large volt modmat a Mainstay that's ever popular for its massive anti-static conductive work service and pin out diagrams for PC Building head to store. gamas access.net to support us directly here's the quick recap of what's going on the new CPUs are called Raptor Lake refresh so it's an update on the 13 series but instead of using a name like 13 650k 139 50k 33900 KSS I guess there's already a KS something like that inel just wanted to change the whole number to make it sound better than it is and so that's what they've done now uh this is still socketable in the existing board so z790 will work with it in Theory z690 Board should work with it check the BIOS updates but aside from being socketable on the same boards there are other things that are the same and a lot of those have to do with the CPU itself other than slight clock increases and in the 147 case an actual core change so the new old 14700 K climbs from an 8p core 8e core 24 thread configuration to an 8p core 12 EC cor and 28 eight thread configuration it has four extra cores in the E capacity even still those are extra cores frequency also climbs Intel says its max turbo frequency is now 5.6 GHz up from 5.4 on the 13700 K sadly this is shy of some of the 6 GHz rumors for the 147 that's not going to help it likewise the ecore turbo has climbed 100 MHz base clock Remains the Same cash has also increased which makes sense because the core count increased and that carries with it more cash here the official int site claims an increase of 4 megabytes in L2 cash TDP Remains the Same uh it it looks like a desperate launch like a scramble and so for pricing they land at the same MSRP as the 13 series unfortunately for Intel the prices aren't MSRP anymore they've moved a little bit and so the $440 for the 14700 K 45 for the 14700 KF those end up higher than the current 13700 series depending on where you look at them likewise the 14900 K is supposed to be a $600 pricing right now at least that's what it was on NewEgg when we checked earlier cuz they're up for pre-order today when we're filming uh but Intel's 13900 K can actually regularly be found for far cheaper than that these days in the 500s we saw 550 to 570 commonly for the 13900 K and the 13700 K is around $400 now so instantly Intel will struggle to fight its own value proposition but we need to look at the rest of the current landscape for positioning as well so believe it or not the r 75800 x3d is still available uh not everywhere but it is still around we saw it for 320 bucks that are listings on newag for 360 the 7800 x3d is another relevant competitor that one is now under $4 on average just the other day we ran a story about how it was 350 uh on a couple of retailers so we're going to get into the data for this there's a lot of it we're going to be reviewing all three CPUs uh in separate pieces so the 14900 k will follow that one will be particularly interesting for The Thermals and the power consumption and then the 146 I almost said 13 600k it's okay it's the same the 14600 K is last um all this data is brand new we just collected it in the past week it is an entirely refreshed test Suite which is awesome we're really excited about it so we have some new games in there like Ballers Gate 3 and Starfield we've kept Stellaris around we've updated cyberpunk to Phantom Liberty lots of cool stuff going on with the test Suite at least so this will be the debut of all that new data uh this is not comparable to Prior data cuz we've updated basically everything and built new os's for this uh but at least it kind of gets us prepped for more CPU launches or whatever in the future now couple other things uh sample size is something that's come up from commonly people who are newer to learning about computer hardware so if you're curious about well but what about sample size it's only one unit we have a whole video on that where we tested 68 CPUs and found the variance to commonly be within 1 to 2% unit to unit you should check that out it's a linked below it's an awesome resource with a lot of research that went into it uh you might learn something there but the reason to bring that up is because the variance from 13,000 to 14,000 kind of Falls within that sample size range a lot of the time depending on what you're testing all right let's get started we'll look at Power first and get into games our power consumption tests we start with a chart showing only the Intel i7 series and then we'll look at a comparison we've been fortunate to collect Power data on over 150 CPU configurations over the years so we can just start splitting that into cool different charts this test looks at all core power consumption in a blender workload in an all core workload with the Intel i7 14700 K the new CPU consumes 284 Watts at the EPS 12 volt rails during the test that's power to the CPU and vrm efficiency losses not total system power so this is already a power hungry chip but it's not much different from the 13700 K which itself was around 280 WS the Raptor Lake Generation and the refresh Remains the most power hungry in all core for the i7 if we look back further the 12700 K pulled around 158 watts in the same test around the same as the last gen I5 13600 K which will be shown on the next chart going back further the 11 700k was around 126 Watts although various bios versions could push it closer to 200 if out of the guidance but 126 Watts was Intel Guidance the 7700k overclocked pulled about the same or 78 Watts when stock the 8700k was about 84 Watts as a final reference for this one the 4770k which is the or one of the oldest currently on this chart although we have other prior data that one pulled 83 Watts so the 13700 K kicked it into a higher gear and the 147 followed the extra few watts is close enough to call them the same here's a lot of the more recent options including competition the Intel I74 700k outd draws the 750x and it's 263 wat consumption by an impressive 20 watts so it's time to update our cooler benches which is exactly what we're doing right now actually because CPUs are drawing more power so we need a higher heat load to start testing them and that'll be coming up soon so stay tuned to the channel for the updated cooler benches the 14700 K also outd draws the 12900 K and for AMD its most dangerous competitor in gaming would be the 7800 x3d which pulls just 86 Watts for the same workload the 5800 X remains relevant as well plotted around 108 Watts here at the uppermost end the 13900 K ran at 295 Watts when stock on the test platform we used and these numbers come down during gaming of course but they come down fairly uniformly everyone gets a reduction when it's not all core Intel is pushing power hard for all core boosting right now and high-end coolers has become more of a necessity than they were a few Generations ago now for the interesting chart this is Energy Efficiency and it's is calculated by taking our blender render time the time required in minutes and running a simple Watt hours calculation against the power consumption the end result is the energy consumption required to complete the full render so faster is better in isolation but depending on the power draw it may be less energy efficient here's the chart the 14700 K ranked at 37.7 wat hours in this calculation lower is better so that has it less efficient than almost anything else on the chart it's at least improved over the 13700 K dropping from 42 .4 wat hours previously even if the 14 700k is faster than many of these CPUs it's also pulling more power to complete the same work whether that matters to you is a personal choice if you need the fastest thing possible or the fastest sort of within a price range then power is often one of the sacrifices if you're running these all the time though and you're concerned about the power bill or maybe heat gain in a room this is a factor to strongly consider we'll talk about raw performance separately but some high-end competitors would include the 59 50x which is one of the most power efficient CPUs we've ever tested its binning was phenomenal and the voltage requirement was very low to keep it stable the 750x also scores significantly better than the 14700 K in efficiency Intel's all Core Power efficiency is definitely behind amds right now AMD remains impressive here and check out our prior AMD eco mode testing on the 750x to see where it can do even better Rainbow Six Siege is up next this game has insanely High FPS ceilings so it makes for an excellent tool to compare CPUs and that frame rate is actually useful to competitive players the R7 7800x 3D blows way past everything in these charts setting its own ceiling at 717 FPS average it's impressive for the AMD CPU but especially considering it's been $350 on us retailers lately the 5800 X 3D is next in the running at 650 FPS average or so these numbers again are crazy high to even talk about but that's kind of where the performance is these days the lows are relatively cons consistent especially considering how high the FPS is here and the 14700 K is functionally tied and average with the 5800 x3d you'll never notice that difference and if we retested them again they might slightly trade places lows are technically higher for the 147 but given the standard deviation of 1% lows can be as high as 10 FPS in this particular game depending on which set of runs it is these end up roughly tied generationally the 14700 K is tied with the former Flagship 139900 K it's within 1% of the 7700x which is currently $300 to $330 and it's ahead of the prior 13700 K by less than 2% that is a shockingly disappointing lead for the 14 700k over the 13700 K considering there are actually some differences between the i7s here just from this game you'd want to buy whichever one is cheaper and not worry about the rest between these two users of the R5 3600 would see an uplift in the range of 80% moving to the 147 more so so if you're on older ryzen Generations but then you might as well get a 5800 xpd and keep the same motherboard your cost is way lower there at 144p am5 leads again we're bouncing off of a GPU bind at the very top end restricted by the 490 as evidenced by the reduced maximum frame rate the 14700 K isn't quite there instead ending up in a cluster with the 7700x the 13900 G and the 58x 3D and most of the other high-end CPUs its lead over the 13700 K is once again irrelevant unfort Ely but this goes to show that even at 1440p there can still be scaling with modern high-end video cards most of these are functionally the same though the 7700x for example basically equals the 14700 K F1 2023 is up now the F1 Series has been on our bench for years at this point and is another game that generally scales well across CPUs and gpus alike plus r tracing inclusion makes it a good test candidate for gpus looking at the 1080p results for CPUs the 7800 x2d leads once again it's at 51 11 FPS average here the lows are slightly reduced versus other CPUs but not meaningfully the 5800 X is also in the upper echelon of CPUs here handing on to a Podium finish with a 452 FPS average result the 14700 K results though place it down at 47 FPS average ahead of the 13700 K by 4.4% we've never seen such exciting massive gains in fact we didn't even know numbers went that high the prior one .8% differences that's one thing but 4.4 that's an incredible feat of technology and wow it has been fun Intel is finally back to its full form it hasn't had numbers this single digit since before ryzen launched phenomenal you can literally see it at 1440p the 14700 K is mindblowing technological prow strikes even harder this time we're seeing a 4.19 78609 625 668 4% Improvement and an average FPS over the prior of 13700 K that's almost as many numbers as an AMD mobile CPU name so they're doing something right the results overall on this chart have come down even those which were distant from the GPU bottleneck we see that with the 5800 X which dropped about 20 FPS off the average from its 1080p results the 14700 K is functionally at the top of the chart though it's hitting limits as are the 7800 x2d the 750x and other nearby neighbors let's move to the next one balers Gate 3 is up now this is brand new to our test Suite but we already studied it extensively in our GPU Benchmark video that video goes into detail on things like the GPU busy metrics for balers Gate 3 plus some information on Vulcan versus directx11 where we're testing within balers Gate City things like that the standard deviation run run for all our CPUs averaged out to 0.9 average FPS here 1.4 for the 1% lows and 4.1 for 0.1% lows so Ballers Gate 3 is remarkably consistent and makes for an excellent CPU benchmark at 1080p with Drax 11 the 14700 K ran at 106 FPS average slightly behind the 13900 K about 1 to 2% better than the 13700 K the 14700 K multiclassing into more ecores unfortunately didn't benefit it here like a mimic deep in under Mountain the 14700 K looks like the healing potion that Intel needs till you realize you only get to roll one D4 on use and then you have to subtract one it's not a bad CPU at all but it's not a meaningful Improvement especially in this game if you were buying Intel no matter what the choice between the top three Intel performers doesn't matter in this game Benchmark the x3d CPUs meanwhile blow past everything they're really impressive this review has made us more interested once again in those than so far we are in this 14700 k at 1440p the standard deviation is even lower for 1% and 0.1% lows about the same for average FPS the results are slightly impacted but overall we're looking at even scaling we're still effectively completely CPU bound there's nothing new to see here just another 1 D4 minus one health potion cyberpunk Phantom Liberty tests are next these are brand new to our test Suite we're not using any R tracing options here that' create a GPU bind in most scenarios and we want to see CPU scaling this game has a specific setting of importance the smt toggle has been updated in recent patches and now should automatically toggle off for some CPU configurations according to cdpr the smt option will flip when core count is under eight cores we have the option of forcing smt on for all CPUs forcing it off or allowing it to follow the behavior that'll result in the best performance as according to the game's native settings configurations we decided to use the smt toggle on auto which actually isn't really that auto it's a dumb toggle it just flips at eight cores this allows each CPU to maximize its performance but in a predi ible way it's not a random Auto and it's also really the way you should be using it here's the chart unfortunately for Intel in this one we just didn't see any scaling with the 14700 K the results are within error of each other AMD is pulling far ahead with the 7800 x3d again the Gap is 24% here in average FPS but the 7800 x3d is doing well as is the 5800 x3d actually the R7 7700x also leads Intel's new CPU here 1440p has the same lineup we're mostly Bound by the CPU which is good for scaling the top of the results get truncated a little bit with the resolution increase though Final Fantasy remains one of Intel's strongest games so this should be more of a beneficial test for the new CPUs x3d doesn't Trend as high here you'll notice that 5800 x3d and 7800 x3d are bound up at effectively the same frame rate the 13900 K leads this chart at least until we run our 14900 K review which will be on the channel within the next 24 hours but the 13900 k for now holds a 2.3% lead over the new 14 700k which itself rests near 256 FPS average now for the exciting part that's a staggering and this is a a big number so get ready 3.18% difference Improvement better than the 13 700k incredible they've done it we don't know what they've done but we're glad they did now that might not seem like much but moving on if you're choosing between a 13 700k and 14 14700 K and they cost exactly the same then sure the 14700 K is the better CPU but otherwise so far this isn't convincing enough on its own the 1440p results were the same were CPU bound so we still see scaling even at the higher resolution Stellaris is next in this one we're testing simulation time measured in seconds across four test passes this isn't an FPS Benchmark but a Time Benchmark so lower is better unfortunately we're just not seeing the scaling past about 30 to 31 seconds for the simulation time everything hits a wall and the jumble at the top doesn't actually mean any CPU is better than the other just that they're all the same we're using a late game state for this so it should be fairly intensive that said we want to experiment with some other ones the game has a lot of potential because it scales great above the 31 second Mark just look at the Gap from the 2700 to the 7700x we want to experiment with some more safe game files so if you have a really late game save with a lot of complexity and if you want to see us continue to use this Tech please email it over to us at tipstips Gamers nexus.net we'll see if we can find some more scaling room in one of those saves for now though the 14700 K and the 13 700k are about the same a Far Far Cry from our staggering world-ending 3% differences we've seen so far speaking of space games time to go to one that needs some work Starfield is new to our CPU test Suite we're testing using the latest version of the game as of October 11th first at 1080p low and then we look at high the 14700 k at 1080p low ran at 126 FPS average posting what was unironically the most exciting result so far 7.6% improvement over the 13700 K that's it we've done it folks we can all go home we got the big gains thank you very much thanks Steve this puts the 14700 K near the 13900 K and technically ahead of the 7800 x3d AMD CPUs generally run slower in this game with Intel largely controlling the top half of this chart at 1080p High instead we saw a similar lineup but with a truncated top end for performance nothing that stands out here so we'll move on now we're on to production benchmarks these actually show some double digit improvements not always but at least we see them sometimes it gives us proof that numbers larger than nine exist we didn't know that before we'll start with blender the 3D modeling and animation software the I74 700k finished in 8 minutes here improving upon the 13700 K with a 12% reduction in time required to complete the render that is literally the first time ever anyone has seen a number as large as 12% it's like back in the good old days when Intel would give us Skylake after Sky Lake the 13900 K still out does the 14700 K by 9% this is because blender will use every thread given to it all at 100% so we see more scaling amd's closest competitors would be the 7 950x which leads and cost $590 right now that's a 20% reduction against the 14700 k for the performance positioning the 7900x is next and gives up a 7% lead to the 14700 K file compression and decompression are measured in millions of instructions per second or mips in compression the 14700 K completed 171,000 mips so it's 9% ahead of the 13700 K here it's still behaving like an overclocked 13700 K despite the extra cores although those at least benefited it in blender but either way the 147 at least does something in production the 7800x is amd's closest price competitor with the 14700 K ahead by 4.6% decompression is interesting since the stack shuffles sometimes so here the 14700 K gets led by the AMD 550x from a generation prior and by a lot 177% the 14700 K improves over the 13700 K by 12% but it loses it's a last gen AMD and that's not a great position the next chart looks at the best CPUs for Adobe Premiere using Puget bench this is scored in Aggregate and the 14700 K scored 822 points here which means it outperforms the 13700 K by a staggering 3.1% we're back to those groundbreaking numbers that Intel allowed us to discover earlier the 750x leads the 14700 K by about 1% here not a ton of difference at the high end in this one Adobe Photoshop had the 14700 k at 1548 points in aggregate functionally tied with the 13900 K and the 7900x the top of the scoring in this one isn't spread out much and then for the lead over the 13700 K that's 3 and 1.5% here so that's it for the 14 700k review this was less of a savior than we thought it might be the seven specifically that core count is what we were really hoping would shake things up a little bit for Intel but in production we had one number that was only like 12% improved over 13 700k okay that's not bad the problem is that's really the only place we're seeing it it's a couple production tests at best it's like 9 to 12% but not even always there we had 3% gains in some cases and then a lot of the games are just really unexciting so what this comes down to in terms of buyer advice is if you are selecting a CPU and you've landed on you want the 13700 K specifically you're wondering is this one worth it or or you want the 147 case specifically what you need to look at next is the pricing because if the pricing is higher on the 147 and you're specifically using it only for gaming you're not going to get much use out of the extra let's say 10 to 12% uplift in some other applications then you you're not getting anything for that extra money you should just spend less and get one of the other CPUs if you're going to do something with one of the applications specifically that saw 10 to 12% uplift well okay great I consider it I guess but the problem is really just that the value is overall not there there's plenty of competition both from Intel's own prior generation like the 139k for example uh certainly that's going to drop in price too and amds existing and prior generation so at least the 14700 K moves sometimes and some places but overall the gaming is more or less identical to the 13700 K that means like effectively even though there's a core count change but in terms of actual realized performance in a real gaming scenario what that means is that we could buy a different 13 700k off the shelf and in cases where we're seeing like a 1.8% change that might be the same that the different 13700 K it might be the same as what we're seeing for the 147 here so uh this is just not a strong launch for Intel it comes across as kind of desperate and weak there are uh reminders of the 11th series which genuinely we had forgotten about um there was like one good CPU in that kind of but the rest of them were a waste of sand the weird one with this is it's not even a waste of materials because they probably just would have been 13,000 series CPUs anyway which people have been buying uh they just have a new name now so if you look at these as basically a slightly pre-overclocked 13,000 series CPU then then you won't be disappointed because that's what it is so that's it for the 14700 K review thank you for watching support us directly if you like these videos you should grab one of our mod mats or project and soldering mats on the store the project mats specifically are high heat resistant mats for not only soldering but you could also use them with other projects for example theal on our team tested them out working with a Dremel on some kind of car part or something so anyway check those out on store. Gamers nexus.net it helps support us and our testing directly despite Intel's effort here we actually put a lot in so uh thank you for your support subscribe for more we'll see you all next timemaking a new product is hard it requires years of development mounting and Engineering Feats new architectures sometimes even new process nodes but here at Intel we need to iterate to make our number bigger so we can sell more things we've learned that bigger number equals big customer and that's why we've Advanced our technology to have the new generation generational Improvement generationally this enables companies everywhere to make bigger number better but without all of the hard work of making the number bigger better our new 14700 K CPU is 1,000 bigger than the 13700 K which means it's 7.3% better just in name alone and that is just the beginning our expert mathematicians are still working on it but we hope to soon invent even bigger bigger number for bigger better so bigger customer buy more numbers uh hey Steve x3d is still beating us today we're reviewing the Intel i7 14700 K it's a new CPU coming out with the 14 Series this is the run one they all look the same it's okay they perform the same too so Intel's launching the 14 600k 14900 K and 14700 K and the 147 is the only one that has any chance of being even remotely a shakeup from the last generation sorry generation we're going to have to do that a lot today uh because it has changed the core count this series CPU launch is Intel's attempt to buy some more time maybe maybe from investors uh but up until they can launch something that's properly a new architecture and we think that's because amd's x3d caught Intel by surprise even back in the 58 x3d where now they are scrambling to shove anything out the door to try and retain as many gaming customers as they can up until a time at Which Intel has something properly new to launch but the 14,000 series is not actually a generational change despite a generational name change we brought you this video with store. Gamers nexus.net and our affordable GPU tear down 10piece toolkits also our solder and project mats and our large volt mod mats every time you see a GN store ad that means we're further accomplishing our goal of reducing Reliance on PC Hardware advertisers the store just got a fresh restock of tools for your PC Building including the 10piece kits with custom ground hex heads for clearing smds multiple options for Phillips and Allen drives and more our projects in solder mats have also been highly received by the community offering an extremely heat resistant surface that works for random projects or for electronics repair and finally this video is also brought to you by our large volt modmat a Mainstay that's ever popular for its massive anti-static conductive work service and pin out diagrams for PC Building head to store. gamas access.net to support us directly here's the quick recap of what's going on the new CPUs are called Raptor Lake refresh so it's an update on the 13 series but instead of using a name like 13 650k 139 50k 33900 KSS I guess there's already a KS something like that inel just wanted to change the whole number to make it sound better than it is and so that's what they've done now uh this is still socketable in the existing board so z790 will work with it in Theory z690 Board should work with it check the BIOS updates but aside from being socketable on the same boards there are other things that are the same and a lot of those have to do with the CPU itself other than slight clock increases and in the 147 case an actual core change so the new old 14700 K climbs from an 8p core 8e core 24 thread configuration to an 8p core 12 EC cor and 28 eight thread configuration it has four extra cores in the E capacity even still those are extra cores frequency also climbs Intel says its max turbo frequency is now 5.6 GHz up from 5.4 on the 13700 K sadly this is shy of some of the 6 GHz rumors for the 147 that's not going to help it likewise the ecore turbo has climbed 100 MHz base clock Remains the Same cash has also increased which makes sense because the core count increased and that carries with it more cash here the official int site claims an increase of 4 megabytes in L2 cash TDP Remains the Same uh it it looks like a desperate launch like a scramble and so for pricing they land at the same MSRP as the 13 series unfortunately for Intel the prices aren't MSRP anymore they've moved a little bit and so the $440 for the 14700 K 45 for the 14700 KF those end up higher than the current 13700 series depending on where you look at them likewise the 14900 K is supposed to be a $600 pricing right now at least that's what it was on NewEgg when we checked earlier cuz they're up for pre-order today when we're filming uh but Intel's 13900 K can actually regularly be found for far cheaper than that these days in the 500s we saw 550 to 570 commonly for the 13900 K and the 13700 K is around $400 now so instantly Intel will struggle to fight its own value proposition but we need to look at the rest of the current landscape for positioning as well so believe it or not the r 75800 x3d is still available uh not everywhere but it is still around we saw it for 320 bucks that are listings on newag for 360 the 7800 x3d is another relevant competitor that one is now under $4 on average just the other day we ran a story about how it was 350 uh on a couple of retailers so we're going to get into the data for this there's a lot of it we're going to be reviewing all three CPUs uh in separate pieces so the 14900 k will follow that one will be particularly interesting for The Thermals and the power consumption and then the 146 I almost said 13 600k it's okay it's the same the 14600 K is last um all this data is brand new we just collected it in the past week it is an entirely refreshed test Suite which is awesome we're really excited about it so we have some new games in there like Ballers Gate 3 and Starfield we've kept Stellaris around we've updated cyberpunk to Phantom Liberty lots of cool stuff going on with the test Suite at least so this will be the debut of all that new data uh this is not comparable to Prior data cuz we've updated basically everything and built new os's for this uh but at least it kind of gets us prepped for more CPU launches or whatever in the future now couple other things uh sample size is something that's come up from commonly people who are newer to learning about computer hardware so if you're curious about well but what about sample size it's only one unit we have a whole video on that where we tested 68 CPUs and found the variance to commonly be within 1 to 2% unit to unit you should check that out it's a linked below it's an awesome resource with a lot of research that went into it uh you might learn something there but the reason to bring that up is because the variance from 13,000 to 14,000 kind of Falls within that sample size range a lot of the time depending on what you're testing all right let's get started we'll look at Power first and get into games our power consumption tests we start with a chart showing only the Intel i7 series and then we'll look at a comparison we've been fortunate to collect Power data on over 150 CPU configurations over the years so we can just start splitting that into cool different charts this test looks at all core power consumption in a blender workload in an all core workload with the Intel i7 14700 K the new CPU consumes 284 Watts at the EPS 12 volt rails during the test that's power to the CPU and vrm efficiency losses not total system power so this is already a power hungry chip but it's not much different from the 13700 K which itself was around 280 WS the Raptor Lake Generation and the refresh Remains the most power hungry in all core for the i7 if we look back further the 12700 K pulled around 158 watts in the same test around the same as the last gen I5 13600 K which will be shown on the next chart going back further the 11 700k was around 126 Watts although various bios versions could push it closer to 200 if out of the guidance but 126 Watts was Intel Guidance the 7700k overclocked pulled about the same or 78 Watts when stock the 8700k was about 84 Watts as a final reference for this one the 4770k which is the or one of the oldest currently on this chart although we have other prior data that one pulled 83 Watts so the 13700 K kicked it into a higher gear and the 147 followed the extra few watts is close enough to call them the same here's a lot of the more recent options including competition the Intel I74 700k outd draws the 750x and it's 263 wat consumption by an impressive 20 watts so it's time to update our cooler benches which is exactly what we're doing right now actually because CPUs are drawing more power so we need a higher heat load to start testing them and that'll be coming up soon so stay tuned to the channel for the updated cooler benches the 14700 K also outd draws the 12900 K and for AMD its most dangerous competitor in gaming would be the 7800 x3d which pulls just 86 Watts for the same workload the 5800 X remains relevant as well plotted around 108 Watts here at the uppermost end the 13900 K ran at 295 Watts when stock on the test platform we used and these numbers come down during gaming of course but they come down fairly uniformly everyone gets a reduction when it's not all core Intel is pushing power hard for all core boosting right now and high-end coolers has become more of a necessity than they were a few Generations ago now for the interesting chart this is Energy Efficiency and it's is calculated by taking our blender render time the time required in minutes and running a simple Watt hours calculation against the power consumption the end result is the energy consumption required to complete the full render so faster is better in isolation but depending on the power draw it may be less energy efficient here's the chart the 14700 K ranked at 37.7 wat hours in this calculation lower is better so that has it less efficient than almost anything else on the chart it's at least improved over the 13700 K dropping from 42 .4 wat hours previously even if the 14 700k is faster than many of these CPUs it's also pulling more power to complete the same work whether that matters to you is a personal choice if you need the fastest thing possible or the fastest sort of within a price range then power is often one of the sacrifices if you're running these all the time though and you're concerned about the power bill or maybe heat gain in a room this is a factor to strongly consider we'll talk about raw performance separately but some high-end competitors would include the 59 50x which is one of the most power efficient CPUs we've ever tested its binning was phenomenal and the voltage requirement was very low to keep it stable the 750x also scores significantly better than the 14700 K in efficiency Intel's all Core Power efficiency is definitely behind amds right now AMD remains impressive here and check out our prior AMD eco mode testing on the 750x to see where it can do even better Rainbow Six Siege is up next this game has insanely High FPS ceilings so it makes for an excellent tool to compare CPUs and that frame rate is actually useful to competitive players the R7 7800x 3D blows way past everything in these charts setting its own ceiling at 717 FPS average it's impressive for the AMD CPU but especially considering it's been $350 on us retailers lately the 5800 X 3D is next in the running at 650 FPS average or so these numbers again are crazy high to even talk about but that's kind of where the performance is these days the lows are relatively cons consistent especially considering how high the FPS is here and the 14700 K is functionally tied and average with the 5800 x3d you'll never notice that difference and if we retested them again they might slightly trade places lows are technically higher for the 147 but given the standard deviation of 1% lows can be as high as 10 FPS in this particular game depending on which set of runs it is these end up roughly tied generationally the 14700 K is tied with the former Flagship 139900 K it's within 1% of the 7700x which is currently $300 to $330 and it's ahead of the prior 13700 K by less than 2% that is a shockingly disappointing lead for the 14 700k over the 13700 K considering there are actually some differences between the i7s here just from this game you'd want to buy whichever one is cheaper and not worry about the rest between these two users of the R5 3600 would see an uplift in the range of 80% moving to the 147 more so so if you're on older ryzen Generations but then you might as well get a 5800 xpd and keep the same motherboard your cost is way lower there at 144p am5 leads again we're bouncing off of a GPU bind at the very top end restricted by the 490 as evidenced by the reduced maximum frame rate the 14700 K isn't quite there instead ending up in a cluster with the 7700x the 13900 G and the 58x 3D and most of the other high-end CPUs its lead over the 13700 K is once again irrelevant unfort Ely but this goes to show that even at 1440p there can still be scaling with modern high-end video cards most of these are functionally the same though the 7700x for example basically equals the 14700 K F1 2023 is up now the F1 Series has been on our bench for years at this point and is another game that generally scales well across CPUs and gpus alike plus r tracing inclusion makes it a good test candidate for gpus looking at the 1080p results for CPUs the 7800 x2d leads once again it's at 51 11 FPS average here the lows are slightly reduced versus other CPUs but not meaningfully the 5800 X is also in the upper echelon of CPUs here handing on to a Podium finish with a 452 FPS average result the 14700 K results though place it down at 47 FPS average ahead of the 13700 K by 4.4% we've never seen such exciting massive gains in fact we didn't even know numbers went that high the prior one .8% differences that's one thing but 4.4 that's an incredible feat of technology and wow it has been fun Intel is finally back to its full form it hasn't had numbers this single digit since before ryzen launched phenomenal you can literally see it at 1440p the 14700 K is mindblowing technological prow strikes even harder this time we're seeing a 4.19 78609 625 668 4% Improvement and an average FPS over the prior of 13700 K that's almost as many numbers as an AMD mobile CPU name so they're doing something right the results overall on this chart have come down even those which were distant from the GPU bottleneck we see that with the 5800 X which dropped about 20 FPS off the average from its 1080p results the 14700 K is functionally at the top of the chart though it's hitting limits as are the 7800 x2d the 750x and other nearby neighbors let's move to the next one balers Gate 3 is up now this is brand new to our test Suite but we already studied it extensively in our GPU Benchmark video that video goes into detail on things like the GPU busy metrics for balers Gate 3 plus some information on Vulcan versus directx11 where we're testing within balers Gate City things like that the standard deviation run run for all our CPUs averaged out to 0.9 average FPS here 1.4 for the 1% lows and 4.1 for 0.1% lows so Ballers Gate 3 is remarkably consistent and makes for an excellent CPU benchmark at 1080p with Drax 11 the 14700 K ran at 106 FPS average slightly behind the 13900 K about 1 to 2% better than the 13700 K the 14700 K multiclassing into more ecores unfortunately didn't benefit it here like a mimic deep in under Mountain the 14700 K looks like the healing potion that Intel needs till you realize you only get to roll one D4 on use and then you have to subtract one it's not a bad CPU at all but it's not a meaningful Improvement especially in this game if you were buying Intel no matter what the choice between the top three Intel performers doesn't matter in this game Benchmark the x3d CPUs meanwhile blow past everything they're really impressive this review has made us more interested once again in those than so far we are in this 14700 k at 1440p the standard deviation is even lower for 1% and 0.1% lows about the same for average FPS the results are slightly impacted but overall we're looking at even scaling we're still effectively completely CPU bound there's nothing new to see here just another 1 D4 minus one health potion cyberpunk Phantom Liberty tests are next these are brand new to our test Suite we're not using any R tracing options here that' create a GPU bind in most scenarios and we want to see CPU scaling this game has a specific setting of importance the smt toggle has been updated in recent patches and now should automatically toggle off for some CPU configurations according to cdpr the smt option will flip when core count is under eight cores we have the option of forcing smt on for all CPUs forcing it off or allowing it to follow the behavior that'll result in the best performance as according to the game's native settings configurations we decided to use the smt toggle on auto which actually isn't really that auto it's a dumb toggle it just flips at eight cores this allows each CPU to maximize its performance but in a predi ible way it's not a random Auto and it's also really the way you should be using it here's the chart unfortunately for Intel in this one we just didn't see any scaling with the 14700 K the results are within error of each other AMD is pulling far ahead with the 7800 x3d again the Gap is 24% here in average FPS but the 7800 x3d is doing well as is the 5800 x3d actually the R7 7700x also leads Intel's new CPU here 1440p has the same lineup we're mostly Bound by the CPU which is good for scaling the top of the results get truncated a little bit with the resolution increase though Final Fantasy remains one of Intel's strongest games so this should be more of a beneficial test for the new CPUs x3d doesn't Trend as high here you'll notice that 5800 x3d and 7800 x3d are bound up at effectively the same frame rate the 13900 K leads this chart at least until we run our 14900 K review which will be on the channel within the next 24 hours but the 13900 k for now holds a 2.3% lead over the new 14 700k which itself rests near 256 FPS average now for the exciting part that's a staggering and this is a a big number so get ready 3.18% difference Improvement better than the 13 700k incredible they've done it we don't know what they've done but we're glad they did now that might not seem like much but moving on if you're choosing between a 13 700k and 14 14700 K and they cost exactly the same then sure the 14700 K is the better CPU but otherwise so far this isn't convincing enough on its own the 1440p results were the same were CPU bound so we still see scaling even at the higher resolution Stellaris is next in this one we're testing simulation time measured in seconds across four test passes this isn't an FPS Benchmark but a Time Benchmark so lower is better unfortunately we're just not seeing the scaling past about 30 to 31 seconds for the simulation time everything hits a wall and the jumble at the top doesn't actually mean any CPU is better than the other just that they're all the same we're using a late game state for this so it should be fairly intensive that said we want to experiment with some other ones the game has a lot of potential because it scales great above the 31 second Mark just look at the Gap from the 2700 to the 7700x we want to experiment with some more safe game files so if you have a really late game save with a lot of complexity and if you want to see us continue to use this Tech please email it over to us at tipstips Gamers nexus.net we'll see if we can find some more scaling room in one of those saves for now though the 14700 K and the 13 700k are about the same a Far Far Cry from our staggering world-ending 3% differences we've seen so far speaking of space games time to go to one that needs some work Starfield is new to our CPU test Suite we're testing using the latest version of the game as of October 11th first at 1080p low and then we look at high the 14700 k at 1080p low ran at 126 FPS average posting what was unironically the most exciting result so far 7.6% improvement over the 13700 K that's it we've done it folks we can all go home we got the big gains thank you very much thanks Steve this puts the 14700 K near the 13900 K and technically ahead of the 7800 x3d AMD CPUs generally run slower in this game with Intel largely controlling the top half of this chart at 1080p High instead we saw a similar lineup but with a truncated top end for performance nothing that stands out here so we'll move on now we're on to production benchmarks these actually show some double digit improvements not always but at least we see them sometimes it gives us proof that numbers larger than nine exist we didn't know that before we'll start with blender the 3D modeling and animation software the I74 700k finished in 8 minutes here improving upon the 13700 K with a 12% reduction in time required to complete the render that is literally the first time ever anyone has seen a number as large as 12% it's like back in the good old days when Intel would give us Skylake after Sky Lake the 13900 K still out does the 14700 K by 9% this is because blender will use every thread given to it all at 100% so we see more scaling amd's closest competitors would be the 7 950x which leads and cost $590 right now that's a 20% reduction against the 14700 k for the performance positioning the 7900x is next and gives up a 7% lead to the 14700 K file compression and decompression are measured in millions of instructions per second or mips in compression the 14700 K completed 171,000 mips so it's 9% ahead of the 13700 K here it's still behaving like an overclocked 13700 K despite the extra cores although those at least benefited it in blender but either way the 147 at least does something in production the 7800x is amd's closest price competitor with the 14700 K ahead by 4.6% decompression is interesting since the stack shuffles sometimes so here the 14700 K gets led by the AMD 550x from a generation prior and by a lot 177% the 14700 K improves over the 13700 K by 12% but it loses it's a last gen AMD and that's not a great position the next chart looks at the best CPUs for Adobe Premiere using Puget bench this is scored in Aggregate and the 14700 K scored 822 points here which means it outperforms the 13700 K by a staggering 3.1% we're back to those groundbreaking numbers that Intel allowed us to discover earlier the 750x leads the 14700 K by about 1% here not a ton of difference at the high end in this one Adobe Photoshop had the 14700 k at 1548 points in aggregate functionally tied with the 13900 K and the 7900x the top of the scoring in this one isn't spread out much and then for the lead over the 13700 K that's 3 and 1.5% here so that's it for the 14 700k review this was less of a savior than we thought it might be the seven specifically that core count is what we were really hoping would shake things up a little bit for Intel but in production we had one number that was only like 12% improved over 13 700k okay that's not bad the problem is that's really the only place we're seeing it it's a couple production tests at best it's like 9 to 12% but not even always there we had 3% gains in some cases and then a lot of the games are just really unexciting so what this comes down to in terms of buyer advice is if you are selecting a CPU and you've landed on you want the 13700 K specifically you're wondering is this one worth it or or you want the 147 case specifically what you need to look at next is the pricing because if the pricing is higher on the 147 and you're specifically using it only for gaming you're not going to get much use out of the extra let's say 10 to 12% uplift in some other applications then you you're not getting anything for that extra money you should just spend less and get one of the other CPUs if you're going to do something with one of the applications specifically that saw 10 to 12% uplift well okay great I consider it I guess but the problem is really just that the value is overall not there there's plenty of competition both from Intel's own prior generation like the 139k for example uh certainly that's going to drop in price too and amds existing and prior generation so at least the 14700 K moves sometimes and some places but overall the gaming is more or less identical to the 13700 K that means like effectively even though there's a core count change but in terms of actual realized performance in a real gaming scenario what that means is that we could buy a different 13 700k off the shelf and in cases where we're seeing like a 1.8% change that might be the same that the different 13700 K it might be the same as what we're seeing for the 147 here so uh this is just not a strong launch for Intel it comes across as kind of desperate and weak there are uh reminders of the 11th series which genuinely we had forgotten about um there was like one good CPU in that kind of but the rest of them were a waste of sand the weird one with this is it's not even a waste of materials because they probably just would have been 13,000 series CPUs anyway which people have been buying uh they just have a new name now so if you look at these as basically a slightly pre-overclocked 13,000 series CPU then then you won't be disappointed because that's what it is so that's it for the 14700 K review thank you for watching support us directly if you like these videos you should grab one of our mod mats or project and soldering mats on the store the project mats specifically are high heat resistant mats for not only soldering but you could also use them with other projects for example theal on our team tested them 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