Intel's 14th-gen Core Processors to Be Launched Soon: Details Leaks

Highlights

• The 14th-generation Core 'Raptor Lake Refresh' CPUs from Intel are scheduled for delivery later this year, and leaked material has confirmed several important aspects of the new chips.
• The next-generation processors will support higher DDR5 speeds and the Intel 7 (10nm) production node, although they will only provide a 3% improvement in performance over current models.
• The i7-14700K in the range will have four extra 'Efficient' cores, potentially providing in a 17% performance increase in multi-threaded apps.

Later this year, Intel is anticipated to introduce its 14th-generation Core 'Raptor Lake Refresh' CPUs as a follow-up to the Raptor Lake portfolio from the previous year. The latest information about the upcoming processors comes directly from Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer MSI and confirms several crucial details, including the names and core counts of several chips in the next-gen family. Various leaks over the past few months have revealed quite a bit about the upcoming processors.

The stolen data originates from an unlisted MSI YouTube video (via @DarkmontTech), which covers some of the important specifics regarding Intel's future CPUs. Although the video has subsequently been made private, it shows that the Raptor Lake Refresh range would support faster DDR5 rates and use the Intel 7 (10nm) production node.

How much improved is the new Intel 14 Gen processor chip?

In particular, the next-gen chips are apparently only 3 percent faster than their predecessors, with the i7-14700K offering an average of up to 17 percent better performance than the 13700K in multi-threaded applications.

The 14700K's performance increase comes from the new chip's four additional efficient cores, which are said to include 8 performance and 12 efficient cores compared to the 13700K's 8P 8E configuration. However, both the i5-14600K and i9-14900K are expected to retain the same number of cores as their predecessors. The former ships with the same 6P 8E configuration as the i5-13600K, while the latter is said to have 8 P cores and 16 E cores, the same as the i9-13900K.

According to previous leaks, the new chips will retain the same architecture as the Raptor Lake models, meaning they will have the same Raptor Cove P-Cores, Gracemont E-Cores cores as their predecessors. They are based on a 10nm process node and at least one high-end chip is expected to hit 6GHz frequencies.

However, the faster performance comes at a cost, as the highest-end Raptor Lake Refresh chips can have a TDP of 300 W. Additionally, they are compatible with existing LGA 1700 / 1800 motherboards, which means that users can easily upgrade their CPU without changing their whole arrangement.