Rendering Performance
We will now take a look at how rendering performance compares.
Cinebench R23
Oof, the Intel Core i5-14600K is killing the competition in Cinebench R23. The 14600K is 65% faster than the Ryzen 5 7600X, a just absolutely destroyingly difference. The 14600K is even 26% faster than the 8-core/16-thread 7700X. Compared to the 13600K the new 14600K is 4% faster.
In Single-Core performance, the Intel Core i5-14600K also comes out on top, it is 4% faster than the 13600K and just about as fast as the 7600X and 7700X.
Blender Open Data Benchmark
The Blender version being tested is 3.6.0. The Intel Core i5-14600K destroys the 7600X by 57%. Compared to the 7700X it is 18% faster. Compared to the 13600K it is 4% faster.
In junkshop the 14600K is 3% faster than the 13600K, and 16% faster than the 7700X and 54% faster than the 7600X.
In the classroom scene, the 14600K is 4% faster than the 13600K 12% faster than the 7700X, and 48% faster than the 7600X.
V-RAY 5 Benchmark
In V-Ray 5 the Intel Core i5-14600K is 4% faster than the 13600K and 12% faster than the 7700X and 47% faster than the 7600X.
HandBrake
We are going to test HandBrake performance encoding a 10-minute video using H.264 on the CPU only. Remember, we are looking for the lowest time to encode here, the lowest result is the best one.
The clear winner on performance is the Intel Core i5-14600K, it saves the most time at a 14-minute render time. This improves upon the 13600K by about 30 seconds, which is impressive honestly. The Ryzen 7 7700X takes 16.3 minutes, and the 7600X takes 21.3 minutes. The Intel Core i5-14600K saves a whole 6 minutes off of the 7600X time to render, and 2 minutes off the 7700X.