The launch of Intel’s upcoming 14th Gen Raptor Lake refresh collection is drawing nearer and meaning the leakers are popping out to play. Some leaks are extra official than others. Just some days in the past, MSI drew consideration with a slide revealing the upcoming i7 14700K/KF will obtain 4 extra e-cores.
Now we’ve got a sign of 14th Gen pricing, and sadly, it seems to be like a value rise is coming — relative to the present thirteenth Gen pricing anyway. The leak comes through @momomo_us, who revealed possible pricing for the 14th Gen Ok fashions.
As you may see within the pic above, all the upcoming fanatic tier chips are set to obtain a roughly 15% value improve over their thirteenth Gen predecessors. That is actually not what players can be wanting to listen to, however there may very well be a silver lining.
As the brand new chips differ little from present thirteenth Gen chips — aside from that i7 e-core depend improve and better clock speeds, it will be nicely price protecting an eye fixed out for thirteenth Gen bargains. A clock pace improve will not make various % of distinction, and in case you’re a gamer, you actually will not discover it. A good twelfth Gen CPU is hardly a slouch both, and as they transfer in the direction of EOL standing, there needs to be some flash gross sales, particularly as we transfer into the Black Friday gross sales interval.
So, with a small efficiency improve gen-on-gen on prime of a value hike, and a rise in peak energy consumption, Intel can have a tricky time convincing twelfth and thirteenth Gen homeowners to improve. In fact, in case you’re coming from an older era CPU, then 14th Gen choices will clearly be one of the best (and final) of the LGA1700 era.
It must also be stated that pricing can and does change within the weeks earlier than a brand new launch, so take these costs with a grain of salt. We do not but know pricing for non-Ok fashions, which can observe later. Anticipate chips just like the i5 14600 and i7 14700 to be fashionable.
We can’t have lengthy to attend. All the symptoms level in the direction of an imminent launch. We should always get particulars at Intel’s Innovation occasion on September nineteenth, although Raptor Lake refresh must share the stage with Intel’s greater fish: Meteor Lake, which is shaping up properly, although absent from desktops.