Motherboard manufacturers have been the source of plenty of information regarding Intel’s 14th Gen Raptor Lake refresh processors and this time ASRock has put more weight to performance expectations and launch dates for them.
To start with, on its own website (via Videocardz), the company has blogged about both the launch date and performance of 14th Gen Raptor Lake refresh CPUs. Firstly there are the performance numbers. Here we’re told that the highest end model – presumably a Core i9-14900K – will offer between eight to 15 percent more performance in multi-threaded workloads than the current Core i9-13900K.
The Core i9-14900K is not expected to be receiving a core count increase, unlike the Core i7-14700K, which is rumored to be receiving four additional E-cores. Here, performance could rise by 17 percent and this seemed to be accurate in leaked Cinebench and CPU results, which have been repeated in other leaked results too. As a result, the extra performance for the Core i9-14900K will come primarily from frequency increases.
The increases will also see noticeable boosts to single-threaded performance too, with ASRock claiming between four and eight percent to be expected over the Core i9-13900K. Launch date rumors have pointed at October and ASRock confirms this in its blog post too.
As widely expected, ASRock goes on to state that its LGA1700 motherboards are next-gen ready, listing not just Z690 and Z790 models, which were expected to be, but we have some concrete proof here that B760, B660 and even H610 chipset motherboards will support 14th Gen Raptor Lake refresh processor too.
Previous rumors have pointed at increased core counts for other 14th Gen CPUs, but more recent information points at just the Core i7-14700K receiving four additional E-cores. This was a little disappointing, but the rest of the range will still benefit from higher clock speeds, gaining between 100-200MHz on their peak boost frequencies.
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