Intel Core i9-14900KS Review: The Swan Song of Raptor Lake With A Super Fast 6.2 GHz Turbo
by Gavin Bonshor on May 10, 2024 10:30 AM ESTCPU Benchmark Performance: Encoding
One of the interesting elements of modern processors is encoding performance. This covers two main areas: encryption/decryption for secure data transfer and video transcoding from one video format to another.
In the encrypt/decrypt scenario, how data is transferred and by what mechanism is pertinent to on-the-fly encryption of sensitive data - a process by which more modern devices are leaning towards for improving software security.
We've updated our list of encoding benchmarks for our 2024 CPU suite to include some of the most relevant and recent codecs, such as AV1, HEVC, and VP9. Not only this, but we have also included FLAC audio encoding as well as WebP2 image encoding into the mix to show not only how the latest processors perform with these codecs but also to show discrepancies in performance throughout the different segments.
We are using DDR5 memory on the Core i9-14900KS, as well as the other Intel 14th Gen Core series processors including the Core i9-14900K, the Core i7-14700K, Core i5-14600K, and Intel's 13th Gen at the relative JEDEC settings. The same methodology is also used for the AMD Ryzen 7000 series and Intel's 12th Gen (Alder Lake) processors. Below are the settings we have used for each platform:
- DDR5-5600B CL46 - Intel 14th & 13th Gen
- DDR5-5200 CL44 - Ryzen 7000
- DDR5-4800 (B) CL40 - Intel 12th Gen
Onto encoding, the Core i9-14900KS and its higher core frequencies typically make a little difference in performance, especially compared directly to the Core i9-14900K. Again, much of the gains in performance, where there are any, are marginal at best.
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PeachNCream - Sunday, May 12, 2024 - link
Reasonably, yes readers shouldn't be concerned with AT funding and staffing problems, but I think it's out of an abundance of kindness that we try our best to overlook the inaccuracies, incompleteness, and typos that currently plagues content here on an on-going basis in the hopes of being encouraging for the future health of the site. Assuming it gets a little time and effort from both employees and leadership, AT can once again become a useful site that does more than just repost company press releases and add grammatical errors during ill-informed fluff commentary. ReplyIketh - Monday, May 13, 2024 - link
Is there a donate/patreon link? Gotta get with the times. Get funding for complete reviews instead of releasing data which isn't even recommended by Intel. I know this site can't make enough money to keep people around even with all these ads. If your base readership gave $5 per year, I bet you could afford some full-time staff. Replygoatfajitas - Sunday, May 12, 2024 - link
It went downhill even before Anand left. At some point he sort of "checked out". ReplyGeoffreyA - Monday, May 13, 2024 - link
He caught the Apple bug... ReplyPeachNCream - Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - link
Didn't Apple eventually turn Anand into an employee? If the half-eaten fruit company bribed me with a lorry load of money, I'd have departed as well and at least played lip service to their overpriced popularity contest products. Running this site has to be more than a bit draining for someone that might have cared. ReplyAndrewJacksonZA - Saturday, May 11, 2024 - link
Thanks Gavin. The Intel BIOS issue is something that I've been wondering if the press would re-test CPUs or not for. Replymode_13h - Sunday, May 12, 2024 - link
> Don't worry; I will be testing Intel Default settings, too.Thank you. I'm looking forward to it. Reply
Oxford Guy - Monday, May 20, 2024 - link
As we all are... ... ... Replyshabby - Monday, May 13, 2024 - link
Just use an air cooler, 400w power usage problem solved. Replypowerarmour - Sunday, May 12, 2024 - link
Absolutely, considering comments were removed on the last article this smells of bias otherwise. Reply