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16 Cores, 32 Threads @4.5GHz, Zen4.
Release date: Q3 2022.

24 Cores, 32 Threads @3.2GHz, Raptor Lake.
Release date: Q4 2023.

Real World Speed
Performance profile from 14,791 user samples
2,508 User Benchmarks
Great bench: 125% Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 5.25 GHz (avg)
Poor bench: 106% Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 1.65 GHz (avg)
Poor: 106% Great: 125%
SPEED RANK: 42nd / 1468
Gaming
Gaming 114%
UFO
Desktop
Desktop 116%
UFO
Workstation
Workstation 150%
UFO
12,283 User Benchmarks
Great bench: 137% Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 5.65 GHz (avg)
Poor bench: 125% Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg)
Poor: 125% Great: 137%
SPEED RANK: 4th / 1468
Gaming
Gaming 131%
UFO
Desktop
Desktop 130%
UFO
Workstation
Workstation 174%
UFO
Effective Speed
Effective CPU Speed
114 % 131 % Faster effective speed.
+14%
Memory
Avg. Memory Latency
81.2 Pts 83.6 Pts +3%
1-Core
Avg. Single Core Speed
208 Pts 239 Pts Faster single-core speed.
+15%
2-Core
Avg. Dual Core Speed
411 Pts 475 Pts Faster dual-core speed.
+16%
4-Core
Avg. Quad Core Speed
788 Pts 946 Pts Faster quad-core speed.
+20%
8-Core
Avg. Octa Core Speed
1,526 Pts 1,822 Pts Faster octa-core speed.
+19%
Memory
OC Memory Latency
92.8 Pts 94.7 Pts +2%
1-Core
OC Single Core Speed
219 Pts 250 Pts Faster OC single-core speed.
+14%
2-Core
OC Dual Core Speed
434 Pts 495 Pts Faster OC dual-core speed.
+14%
4-Core
OC Quad Core Speed
853 Pts 961 Pts Faster OC quad-core speed.
+13%
8-Core
OC Octa Core Speed
1,675 Pts 1,911 Pts Faster OC octa-core speed.
+14%
Market Share
Based on 69,052,451 CPUs tested
Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days)
0.12 % 0.9 % Hugely higher market share.
+650%
Value
Value For Money
99.2 % 116 % Better value.
+17%
User Rating
UBM User Rating
61 % 74 % More popular.
+21%
Price
Price (score)
$467 $420 Cheaper.
+10%
Age
Newest
25 Months 13 Months Much more recent.
+48%
TDP
Thermal Design Power (TDP)
170 Watts 125 Watts More energy efficient.
+26%
Cores
CPU Processing Cores
16 cores 24 cores Much higher core count.
+50%
Threads
CPU Processing Threads
32 threads 32 threads
Lithography
Manufacturing process
5 nm Much newer manufacturing.
+50%
10 nm
Base Clock
Base Clock Speed
4.5 GHz Much faster base frequency.
+41%
3.2 GHz
Turbo Clock
Turbo Clock Speed
5.7 GHz 6 GHz Slightly faster turbo frequency.
+5%
64-Core
OC Multi Core Speed
3,901 Pts 4,535 Pts Faster OC 64-core speed.
+16%
64-Core
Avg. Multi Core Speed
3,613 Pts 4,231 Pts Faster 64-core speed.
+17%
Series
CPU Architecture
Zen4 Raptor Lake
Socket
Motherboard Socket
AM5 FCLGA1700
Graphics
Integrated Graphics
RDNA2 UHD 770

Within minutes of the first, pre-release, 7000 series userbenchmark results, AMD’s marketers broadcast a 20% win over the 12900K via thousands of anonymous twitter, reddit, forum and youtube accounts. Buying new AMD products is like buying used cars: it takes time, experience and a taste for sales hype. It’s difficult for consumers to make rational choices while AMD completely dominates “sponsored news” and social media channels. Ten years ago, when AMD was the underdog, this type of marketing was understandable. Today, with a capitalization of $150 Billion USD, it’s disrespectful to AMD's own users. Even with Intel's marketing department asleep at the wheel, Ryzen will quickly end up in the same state as Radeon. Following a series of overhyped releases, consumers have little interest in the Radeon brand. The combined market share for all of AMD’s (discrete) Radeon RX 5000 and 6000 GPUs (Steam stats) is just 2%. Although the new 7000 series Zen4 CPUs are actually around 15% faster than their predecessors, they have hefty cooling requirements (TDP +60% vs 5000 series), 30 second BIOS post times, expensive DDR5 RAM requirements and only work with expensive motherboards. Despite the 7000 series struggling to match Intel’s outgoing 12th gen, AMD market it as a “future proof” platform! They want users to pay a premium for last gen performance in exchange for the shallow promise of upgrades in the future. Over the next few days, Intel’s 13th gen (Raptor Lake) will launch. Shoppers will do well to wait until then. Despite AMD’s Neanderthal marketing techniques, it’s hard not to admire their technical progress. AMD-Raptor4 and Intel-Zen13 would be better fitting product names. [Sep '22 CPUPro]

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This CPU is incredibly well-placed for a refresh. The i9 14900k(640 euros) offers similar performance to the i9 13900KS(800 Euros) while being available for much less money. The new gen motherboards are also much better. So if you were thinking about getting the 13th gen i9 then the 14th gen is a no-brainer since it offers flawless performance for both gaming and productivity tasks. This is especially true since AMD's "equivalent" 7950x3d is haunted by software bugs and "features" such as needing to have Xbox game bar open 24/7 and having their motherboards overvolt and kill the CPUs. [Oct '23 MrNukes]

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