Hope all is well with everyone. My goal is to squeeze every bit of performance for rendering and gaming. I’ve waited patiently for an upgrade from 5950x. I am looking to upgrade to the 14900k, but it appears to be a rebadged 13900k with some overclocks. If that is true, I’m thinking of waiting for 13900k prices to drop and snag that. However, if the 14 series is a rebadged KS or any other improvements… It may be worth getting the 14900k. Thoughts?
The problem with waiting, as @MisteryAngel knows there is always something better around the corner. Something comes up in life and you wait longer or nothing comes up and you wait longer. Waiting is a stupid game imo. I say waiting for winter to come means you dont get to enjoy the spring, summer or fall when the weather is nice. Someone once told me you get the value at first launch more than waiting because it pays itself back via actual use. Actual improved performance in applications. Anyways wait, don’t wait, it is your prerogative. I don’t wait and generally don’t have issues like some that do.
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If the new product’s launch is not imminent, and the price is right, I’ll usually just make the buy.
Doesn’t seem like it’s worth the wait imo.
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It indeed seems to be extremely weak release from the latest tidbits.
No fabrication process change, no architectural changes, just some more e- cores? And price 10% increase for <3% perf. gain in certain scenarios? It like weakest launch in my living memory from intel.
Since you already have top of line CPU like 5950x, you will be better of waiting what zen 8000+ brings on the table and intels reation to that.
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It sounds like current rendering performance is not a problem and the 13900k was released almost a year ago and you havent bought it yet, so wait until Black Friday sales, at that point 14900k performance will be known and the 13900k will likely be at its lowest price ever plus you can likely get a motherboard and ram on sale. At that point you wont have to speculate on performance, motherboard companies will have their new refreshed motherboards out and you can figure out if spending more for the 14900k is worth it to you.
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Personally, I really like AMDs Ryzens better power efficiency so I wouldnt buy Intel unless I needed something like Intels quick sync feature.
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According to rumors the only interesting Raptor lake chip,
compared to the current gen of intel cpu’s seems to be the 14700K.
Because that chip seems to be getting 4 extra E cores + 3MB L3 cache.
But yeah rumors… for what it’s worth.
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Yup, thats exactly wwhy I switched sides and went from i7 8700k → Ryzen 9 7950x3d.
There are some headaches, but nothing too extreme. Power efficiency is amazing without even tweaking anything, like eco mode.
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from a 5950x is a piddling upgrade for the money…
about 20% but often less.
and for the outlay of a new build to put it in… nope not worth the money.
if your earning your living then it might be worth the tax right off. but if its just for the sake of upgrading… save your money.
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Well yeah the 14900K is not out yet.
So there is not really anything meaningful to say about it.
The only rumor i heard about the up coming raptor lake cpu´s is that the 14700K,
is getting extra E-cores and L3 cache.
But yeah still rumors so to speak.
If both of those things have to be done on the same machine, just wait. If not, splitting those workloads will give you more options.
Also thinking about updating my dinosaur 9900K (yeah, it’s O L D, I know). Can’t really tell if 14900K will be better than 13900K, but I do hope that things like Thermal Grizzly’s CPU Contact Frame will be resolved.
There are rumors (that the sky is actually green) that it will not only polished 13th gen, but better clocks, but I doubt Intel will look at the rumors and go like “Ah jeez, lets add this as well”.
If I understand correctly, the announcement should happen this month.
I ended up going with 13900ks. I think it will be 30 or 40 cheaper than the 14900k. I might regret it only if there is a better memory controller. I’m 95 % sure it’s just a rebrand. Otherwise, it feels much faster than the 5950x with my work.
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