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.