Intel just announced the rest of the Raptor Lake Refresh lineup. In addition to the K-series processors launched last year, the 14th Gen now includes the Core i5 14500, 14400, and Core i3 14100, alongside new low power variants of most chips.
You'll find the same architecture used (mostly) throughout the 13th and 14th Gen: Raptor Lake. With the 14th Gen parts, however, you can expect marginally higher clocks.
In the case of the budget-friendly Core i5 14400F, you'll score an extra 100MHz on the P-core Max Turbo clock and 200MHz on the E-core Max Turbo clock versus the 13400F. The Core i5 14500 delivers 200MHz extra across both types of core, and the 14100 is 200MHz faster, though it doesn't have any E-cores.
That's about what we've come to expect from the 14th Gen, and ultimately it's unlikely we'll see major frame rate improvements over the closely related 13th Gen. In my experience reviewing the 14600K and 14900K, there's not much to be gained for the slightly quicker clock speeds. Sure, it's nice to have, but only if it's not going to cost you anything.
The one chip I've recently reviewed that I'm actually a fan of is the Core i7 14700K, though this chip also brings four more E-cores to the table and as such is a genuine improvement on what came before.
Unfortunately there's no such step-up in core count for any of cheaper 14th Gen processors just announced. In fact, in the case of these cheaper Raptor Lake Refresh chips, they're still using what effectively amounts to Alder Lake dies. You see one of the benefits to the Raptor Lake architecture over Alder Lake, originally used in the 12th Gen, was an increase in L2 cache per core—from 1.25MB per P-core and 2MB per E-core cluster to 2MB per P-core and 4MB per E-core
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