Leaked benchmarks for Intels next-gen Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs look shaky
but dont panic

Date:
Tue, 08 Aug 2023 09:58:44 +0000

Description:
Intel Core i9-14900K and 14700K fail to impress in leaked benchmarks, but theres more to this than first meets the eye.

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Intels Raptor Lake Refresh desktop processors have been spotted in another leak, and this time round we have some more benchmarks to feast our eyes on.

In this case, the benchmarks are drawn from CrossMark (a suite produced by BAPCo to provide a gauge of app performance and responsiveness), and we have results of both Intels incoming Core i9-14900K and the Core i7-14700K.

As spotted by Toms Hardware , the Core i9-14900K recorded an overall score of 2,265 (add seasoning, as ever), with the Core i7-14700K hitting 1,980. Thus
we can conclude the 14900K is around 14% faster than the 14700K, at least going by this one result.

The 14900K is slightly faster still in some of the tests that make up the overall benchmark notably, its 20% quicker in the responsiveness test.

What this leak also shows is the purported core counts of these Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs, and it backs up what has previously been aired on the rumor
mill namely that the 14700K is going to have more cores, 20 of them. Thatll break down to 8 performance cores and 12 efficiency cores, with the latter being 4 more than the 13700K.

The 14900K will keep the same core configuration as its Raptor Lake predecessor, which occupies the number three spot in our list of the best processors (the 13700K is number one, incidentally, to give you some idea of how important these sequels are).

Unfortunately, the spec details provided by this leak dont cover clock
speeds, but Raptor Lake Refresh is only expected to juice things up to a relatively minor extent compared to Intels current-gen CPUs. One theory weve heard is that 14th-gen processors will be 200MHz faster across most of the range. Analysis: Why we shouldnt focus on the scores here

Why arent we comparing these 14th-gen processors to the results of their 13th-gen counterparts here? Well, because the latter are actually faster in the CrossMark results database.

While that might seem worrying, or indeed even ridiculous, remember that
these Raptor Lake Refresh processors are still engineering samples or thats what we presume, anyway and clearly not running at their full performance levels. After all, theres no way Intel would release a new generation of silicon that is slower than the previous range of CPUs, for obvious reasons.

For the same reason, theres no point in drawing comparisons between these leaked results and AMD Ryzen CPUs.

Dont worry about the raw performance side of the equation here. The value of this leak is in showing that the Core i7-14700K does indeed up the efficiency core count or at least, this is yet another indication that this is the case
and that its not too far off the performance of the 14900K. Actually, we would expect the gap to be a bit closer based on current-gen Raptor Lake results in CrossMark but there could be something else going on behind the scenes here.

As ever with spilled benchmarks, we must be careful about drawing too much in the way of conclusions.

The other interesting thing about this leak is its very existence, and the fact that were now seeing multiple Raptor Lake Refresh benchmarks popping up on the grapevine (there was a Cinebench leak for the 14700K last month). As the release of any hardware nears, more leaks appear, and so this is a hint that Intels launch date for 14th-gen CPUs is nearing. October the rumored month for these chips to hit the shelves looks a good bet at this point.

After all, we just heard that Intels Innovation event in September will see Team Blue reveal Meteor Lake processors , which are the laptop chips to run alongside Raptor Lake Refresh on the desktop so surely the latter will get a mention, too? We shall see.



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/cpu/leaked-benchmarks-for-intels-next-gen- raptor-lake-refresh-cpus-look-shaky-but-dont-panic


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