Monday, March 11th 2024
Intel Core i9-14900KS Pricing Confirmed to be $749
Pricing of Intel's upcoming enthusiast-segment desktop processor, the Core i9-14900KS, has been confirmed to be $749, according to a MicroCenter listing. This price is identical to what the company asked for the previous generation i9-13900KS and i9-12900KS. As a Special Edition SKU, the i9-14900KS may not be available in all markets you'd normally find the i9-14900K in, also the chip is expected to have higher cooling- and power requirements. Based on the "Raptor Lake Refresh" silicon, this 8P+16E core processor is expected to come with maximum boost frequencies of 6.20 GHz, and generally better overclocking headroom than the regular i9-14900K. The Core i9-14900KS is expected to go on sale this Thursday, March 14, 2024. Whether it beats the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D at gaming is the $749 question we'll answer soon.
Source:
VideoCardz
103 Comments on Intel Core i9-14900KS Pricing Confirmed to be $749
I didn't mean to imply you shouldn't disable E-cores, I did disable mine at first.
As for the amount of heat on the chips, I was under the impression alot of that has to do with either the X3D chips cache or the temp sensors location on the chip. I don't think the heat output of the 14900K is lower than the 7950X for instance.
As far as market share, its amazing the share they have considering where they started from after the early to mid 2010's. Plus a lot of the market share at least in the business space is going to be based on life cycle of the products/availability of other alternatives. I think in the next couple of years its just going to keep changing as business start more heavily cycling out devices that are 5+ years old.
Still though, in this chips case the power consumption/efficiency only matters in respect to how much more performance you get from this binned chip in the overclocking field. I almost would love to buy it just to have fun pushing it.
Temperature ≠ heat output. The issue raised is that the Intel CPU/platform design is so much better than the AM5 equivalent, that Intel chips can output 4x the heat, yet still have lower temperatures, because the heat transfer wasn't sabotaged by an engineering design that maintained cooler compatibility with the older generation, rather than just getting end users to install a spacer washer kit, new back plates or something to that end.
As for the heat, I was mostly just meaning the sensor location can influence those results. However after remembering it was the opposite of what I was thinking I retract that (IE they are lower than the Intel threshold, I thought opposite when I posted but remembered).
This can be easily verified by observing CPU power while locking tasks to either P or E core clusters, and comparing benchmark scores with this method.
E cores are great but they're area efficient, only power efficient if clocked conservatively, which they're not on the CPUs we're discussing.
The faster core does the work in less time, so it's consuming more energy for a shorter time period, rather than less energy per second, but for enough seconds it's more energy in total.
I am not arguing against P-Cores being a more efficient/Binned cores versus E-Cores.
Well 14700k just dropped under 400.us so anyone smart enough to wait just saved some money hehe