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: Rendering
Rendering tests, compared to others, are often a little more simple to digest and automate. All the tests put out some sort of score or time, usually in an obtainable way that makes it fairly easy to extract. These tests are some of the most strenuous in our list, due to the highly threaded nature of rendering and ray-tracing, and can draw a lot of power.
If a system is not properly configured to deal with the thermal requirements of the processor, the rendering benchmarks are where it would show most easily as the frequency drops over a sustained period of time. Most benchmarks, in this case, are re-run several times, and the key to this is having an appropriate idle/wait time between benchmarks to allow for temperatures to normalize from the last test.
Some of the notable rendering-focused benchmarks we've included for 2024 include the latest CineBench 2024 benchmark and an update to Blender 3.6 and V-Ray 5.0.2.
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
Rendering workloads are highly intensive and, for the most part, are more intensive than other typical workloads. As we can see in both the CineBench R23 and 2024 single-threaded results, the additional 200 MHz to the P-core turbo (6.2 GHz) makes a notable difference to ST performance. In contrast, in the multi-threaded tests, again, we don't see too much difference in benchmarks such as Blender, where the extra clock speed saves a couple of seconds at most over a long benchmark.
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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