Intel Core i9-14900K review
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Undying
If the arctic 360 liquid freezer II cannot handle it then you know how air coolers would perform running 14900k.
Airbud
yeah it's hot/power hungry just to stay on top.... as another member just mentioned... "barely on top" vs competitors air cooled solution.
Benchmarks still show that a rtx 4090 still benefits from this fast processor....Just shows how fast a 4090 really is.
Serious question: is there any processor that can make the 4090 become the bottleneck?
wavetrex
Not yet, obviously.
But ... Zen 5 X3D might.
The interesting part is that resolution is pretty much stuck at UHD (3840x2160) and will most likely continue to be so for a long, long time.
Despite what all the marketing says, "8K gaming" is not a thing. Humans don't have eyesight good enough to care about 8K at desktop monitor sizes, even with larger screens like 42"
There's also no 8K media content at all... heck, even some Hollywood movies are still mastered at 1080p, to this day, the upscaled to 4K for bluray releases...
"But but, we have 4K phones with much smaller screens"
True, but we also hold those a lot closer to our eyes than the typical viewing distance for a desktop display.
So, GPUs are catching up with that 4K / UHD resolution, and the only way up is framerate.
CPU performance will once again become very important, to sustain those 120... 144... 240... or more fps in ALL games.
TLD LARS
A 4090 is allready the bottleneck at 1440p and up in a lot of games with highest detail settings.
If Raytracing is turned on the 4090 is even more of a bottleneck.
LimitbreakOr
This review really shows what a great cpu the 7800X3d really is. Though the high power usage would be a great space heater for the cold winters.
Valken
I was thinking better to spend the money on a GPU if you have 9900K or better CPU already at 4K. With FSR, DLSS, it just make more sense unless you play some old ancient CPU bound game like ARMA or CSGO.
Ryu5uzaku
It's a toss up also if 7800X3D or this is on top when you take a huge selection of games. So it's not even barely on top it's just equal.
wavetrex
Not equal in price.
Plus dead platform, this being the last CPU that works on the current Intel socket.
AM5 will probably last another couple of good years.
Only a madman would buy this CPU for a brand new build. But hey, plenty of madmen out there...
Netherwind
Maybe here at Guru3D, yes, but I've read tests from other media outlets and results differ a lot.
You are right that the 14600k being cheaper but according to what I've read you also get less performance. And I'm not sure about comparison since the 14600k has 6x P-cores.
Horus-Anhur
Right on time for chilly weather...
fantaskarsef
I tell you, these days we Europeans can really think about the dimension of saving on heating when buying one of those CPUs, with thermal throttling at 100°C+
Or just leave the windows open to clean your driveway
TheDigitalJedi
@Hilbert Hagedoorn
This is the most comprehensive, detailed and professional review I've read on the 14900K. Fantastic! Excellent work and thank you again. I'll know today if I have a buyer for my current processor. If so, it's off to Micro Center I go. With my AIO Cooling, premuim fans along with Michigan Fall and Winter I'm not worried about the heat. Lol!
Carfax
A good air cooler will handle it fine I suspect, especially when you take undervolting into consideration.
These CPUs are highly configurable. You can power or temp limit it easily if you want. Also, it's rare to find a desktop workload that will max out these CPUs. The only ones that come to mind are shader compiling on certain games and encoding/transcoding.
Of course synthetic and benchmarking tests also max out CPUs but those aren't real workloads.
Carfax
7800X3D is a great gaming CPU, probably the best on the market in fact when you consider price. For other workloads, it gets demolished by the midrange 13th and 14th gen CPUs.
13th and 14th gen CPUs are as one poster put it, great all rounders with no real weaknesses in terms of performance.
Carfax
I bought mine from Amazon, because for some damn reason, Microcenter only stocks the 14900K and not the 14900KF which is the one I want! 😡 The KF version usually has better binned cores than the K version, so I'm hoping I get a high quality silicon 14900KF so I can do some major undervolting.
Carfax
Whether a game is CPU or GPU bottlenecked depends on several factors, most notably the settings and secondly, how optimized the 3D engine is and how it utilizes hardware.
Some games can be CPU bottlenecked even at 4K resolution in some places due to heavy CPU load and lack of proper multithreading.
Generally speaking though, 13th and 14th gen and Zen 4 3D CPUs make excellent CPUs to drive the RTX 4090 and will not bottleneck it assuming the user isn't running his games at low resolution and low settings.
H83
You can always use Nvidia`s DSR or AMD`s VSR to increse the resolution rendered by the screen.
Netherwind
I doubt 8K gaming will be a thing for a long time, simply because we don't have the graphical processing power to tame such a crazy number of pixels. Still, you can trust that monitor manufacturers and probably nVidia will release a "8K ready card" sooner than later. I'm personally quite content with 4K and even 3440x1440 when DLSS is implemented well.
-Tj-
390W multi core..? No thank you.
I will wait for 15th gen instead and for those dissing rocketlake, you have no clue 😛
Mufflore
I prefer 60 to 70C, 15th gen for me.
