Rendering Performance
We will now take a look at how rendering performance compares.
Cinebench R23
We again only see a minor difference between 7800MT/s memory performance and 7200MT/s memory performance in Cinebench. We do however see an uplift compared to the i9-13900K, the new i9-14900K is 3% faster in this multi-core workload. We also see a bigger difference compared to the Ryzen 9 7950X where the i9-14900K is 8% faster. Once again the 7950X3D is not the CPU for these workloads.
In Single-Core performance, the i9-14900K is 4% faster than the i9-13900K and 14% faster than the Ryzen 9 7950X/3D.
Blender Open Data Benchmark
The Blender version being tested is 3.6.0. We can see that the Intel Core i9-14900K provides a 3% performance uplift from the Core i9-13900K. It is much closer in performance here though with the Ryzen 9 7950X, which it only beats slightly.
This is the first benchmark where the Ryzen 9 7950X takes the lead, and it is by 3%. Otherwise, the i9-14900K improves upon the 13900K by 3%.
In the classroom scene, the Ryzen 9 7950X and 7950X3D interestingly take the lead. In fact, the 7950X takes a bigger 5% lead over the i9-14900K. The 14900K improves upon the 13900K by 2%.
V-RAY 5 Benchmark
In V-Ray 5 the Ryzen 9 7950X continues a lead over the i9-14900K by 5%, and the 7950X3D matches performance with the i9-14900K. The 14900K improves upon the 13900K by 3%.
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 i9-14900K which encoded our video in 8.5 minutes, beating the 7950X by almost a whole minute. It also improved over the 13900K which took a bit longer at over 9 minutes. There isn’t any difference in RAM speed really, but it does show that for video encoding the 14900K is faster than the 13900K, for renders that take hours, it can add up, and is clearly faster than the 7950X.
Discussion (8 replies)
Join Discussion →Nice review. I didn't have really high hopes for this "refresh", but was thinking of maybe a 14700K, but now that just wouldn't make sense.
We have a 14700K in house - it should be on its way to Brent to get the review done (it was used on the launch motherboard review we did).
I ran benches on it for a few days and generally observed it to be on par or slightly faster than the 13900K except for some all core exercises like Cinebench while using the same amount of power.
That is good to hear, but from everything I have read here and have read everywhere else this 14th gen isn't worth the upgrade from my 13600K.
14th Gen was never intended to be an upgrade from 13th Gen.
It was known well ahead of time that it would be just a refresh with a clock speed bump. It's been called Raptor Lake refresh for ages. The results are expected. I don't know why everyone is so shocked.
A lot of people are overreacting for sure. I came in with an open mind that if one of these 14th gen processors were a worthy upgrade then I’d pull the trigger.
Yeah, we had a post about a month ago with the Intel's road map post refresh and by mid-end 24 to early 2025, things look kind of exciting. Panther Lake and the next socket design.
https://www.thefpsreview.com/2023/09/21/intel-confirms-arrow-lake-lunar-lake-and-panther-lake-processor-lineups-will-begin-launching-in-2024-and-into-2025/
Yep and right in line with the next CPU for AM5 right? should be a good time for CPU's, not so much for GPU's I'm thinking. Well 2025 maybe.
Yep, I will be waiting until next year to upgrade I believe. My 13600K is doing fine and should easily last me until then.