Anyone at MSI is on the naughty step immediately. As a result of the corporate by accident printed a public YouTube video detailing Intel’s upcoming 14th Gen Raptor Lake refresh CPUs.
The video even included “NDA, don’t share” textual content emphasising that it was not supposed for public consumption. Unsurprisingly, the video was taken down after a couple of hours.
After some conflicting rumours over the core counts of the brand new processors, the primary take away from MSI’s unintentional video is that solely the Core i7 14700K and 14700KF are getting added cores. The place the thirteenth Gen 13700K had eight Efficiency cores and Eight environment friendly cores, the brand new 14th Gen processors get 4 extra Environment friendly cores.
For the opposite chips within the 14th Gen vary, the core counts are carried over. Meaning, based on the MSI video, that different members of the Raptor Lake refresh vary are on common simply three % quicker than current thirteenth Gen chips. The extras cores within the Core i7 fashions make for a 17 % multi-threaded uplift.
If you happen to’re considering that suggests the clockspeeds have not taken a significant leap, that appears to be right, though the video doesn’t seem to incorporate clockspeed specs.
What we do know is that these 14th Gen chips aren’t actually worthy of a brand new “Gen” classification. They’re the identical Raptor Lake structure as thirteenth Gen CPUs and constructed on the identical 10nm course of, now branded Intel 7.
No matter, the Okay and KF variants with unlocked multipliers and each unlocked multipliers and disabled graphics, respectively, are anticipated to be out later this yr, with the non-Okay and KF variants launched early in 2024.
With this most convincing of leaks, it is clear that Intel’s 14th Gen processors aren’t actually going to maneuver the needle and sure exist for advertising causes and to offer their companions one thing “new” to push on the desktop coming into the vacation season. We’ll have to attend till Intel’s Arrow Lake CPUs for an actual advance on the desktop, and people in all probability will not be launched till the second half of 2024.
We’re nonetheless hopeful that Intel could have one thing extra thrilling later this yr with its new Meteor Lake CPUs for laptops. They could possibly be introduced as quickly as September and produce a variety of improvements together with a chiplet design and die shrink for the cores to Intel’s new Intel 4 course of. This is hoping.