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Intel 7 Raptor Lake 150W
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36MB L3 Cache
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32MB L2 Cache
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Intel UHD Graphics 770
- For the last several generations of desktop processors from Intel, the company has released a higher clocked, special-edition SKU under the KS moniker, which the company positions as their no-holds-barred performance part for that generation. For the 14th Generation Core family, Intel is keeping that tradition alive and well with the announcement of the Core i9-14900KS, which has been eagerly anticipated for months and finally unveiled for launch today. The Intel Core i9-14900KS is a special edition processor with P-Core turbo clock speeds of up to 6.2 GHz, which makes it the fastest desktop processor in the world… at least in terms of advertised frequencies it can achieve.
- s has been the case throughout the lifecycle of the KS processors, arguably the key benefit is that prospective buyers won’t need to overclock their processor to achieve these insanely high 6.2 GHz P-core turbo clock speeds; Intel does all of it before it’s opened out of the box. This is the best of the best of the silicon that Intel has to offer, at least in terms of clockspeed headroom. As the Core i9-14900K, it sits above the current 14th Gen Core series family stack in terms of clock speeds, but it also replaces it as the fastest out-of-the-box x86 processor ever launched in retail.These blistering clockspeeds do come at a cost in terms of power, however. Intel has given the Core i9-14900KS a base TDP rating of 150 W, up 25 W compared to the Core i9-14900K. Meanwhile the out-of-the-box PL1/PL2 turbo power limit is 253 Watts, and like the previous i9-13900KS, Intel is once again offering a further “extreme” power profile, which raises those limits to 320 Watts. And even then, enthusiast motherboards can and will violate any and all power limits in the name of keeping clockspeeds high and getting the highest performance possible out of the chip, so the published 253W/320W figures are largely academic.
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