Intel Core i5-14600K, 6C+8c/20T, 3.50-5.30GHz, boxed ohne Kühler

Der Intel Core i5-14600K hinterlässt insgesamt einen beeindruckenden Eindruck und sichert sich damit einen Platz im oberen Mittelfeld dieser Prozessorgeneration. Mit seinen 14 echten Kernen, bestehend aus 6 Performance- und 8 Efficient-Cores, sowie einer maximalen Turbo-Taktfrequenz von 5,3 GHz erweist sich der Prozessor als äußerst leistungsfähig.

Die Refresh-Generation ist, wie der Name schon verrät, ein Lückenfüller mit geringfügigen Upgrades. Angesichts der geringfügigen Preisunterschiede im Vergleich zu den aktuellen Vorgängerpreisen lohnt sich der Kauf, wenn man ohnehin in ein LGA1700-System investieren wollte.

Intel's "Raptor Lake Refresh" 14th-gen CPUs are here, reprising the designs and prices we saw on 13th-gen models, but bumping up clock speeds - up to 6GHz for the flagship 14900K. These minor changes come thanks to manufacturing improvements and more generous binning, but are they enough to break the deadlock and give Intel the fastest gaming CPU title once more? We've received the 14900K and 14600K to find out, as we put Intel's latest against our usual barrage of game benchmarks and content creation workloads. It'll be a tough challenge even with (modestly) higher clocks, as AMD's Ryzen 7000 CPUs are capable from the top to the bottom of the stack while often drawing less power too. This is particularly true of the current fastest gaming CPU by our measurements, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. This high-end CPU punches well above its weight in gaming and often eclipses the 13900K, thanks to its 3D V-Cache - which boosts gaming performance substantially in many titles. You can see how the 14900K and 14600K fit into Intel's Socket 1700 lineup in the table below. As a reminder, each of these CPUs benefits from a range of advances over their 11th-gen counterparts, with asymmetric designs which combine performance and effiency cores built on a 10nm "Intel 7" process node. There's also a choice of DDR5 or DDR4 RAM and PCIe 5.0 support, courtesy of a wide range of Z690 and Z790 motherboards.

This year's Intel Core processor launch looks like it'll be the last one with the "Core i" branding. The company's next-generation Meteor Lake CPUs will use an updated naming scheme, and will just be called "Core" and "Core Ultra." Under the hood, 14th Gen uses the same Raptor Lake dies that we've seen in 13th Generation CPUs, with some improvements. During their briefings Intel confirmed that they have "optimized the design and process technology," but also that the same manufacturing node, core design, IPC and Thread Director capability is used. All the SKUs released today are based on a single die and revision (unlike 13th Gen). There's some new features like XTU AI Assist and Intel Application Optimization, more on those later.