The Raptor Lake-S Refresh leaks are starting to pile up, suggesting that a formal introduction is right around the corner.
It could be another couple of weeks before Intel formally introduces its 14th Gen Core desktop processors, otherwise known as Raptor Lake-S Refresh. In the meantime, more leaks are piling up. The newest one is a small set of single-core and multi-core benchmark runs in Geekbench 6 for the Core i9-14900K, which is set to ascend into flagship status when it arrives.In case you haven’t been keeping tabs on Intel’s technically next-gen CPUs, Raptor Lake-S Refresh is exactly what it sounds like—a refresh of Raptor Lake. While they are expected to carry the 14th Gen designation, the underlying architecture is the same as Intel’s 13th Gen Core Raptor Lake-S processors. So, what exactly is different?For the most part, you’re looking at faster clock speeds. It’s also been reported that at least one of the upcoming SKUs will feature more E-cores than its 13th Gen equivalent. As it pertains to the Core i9-14900K, however, it will debut with the same 24-core/32-thread configuration as the Core i9-13900K, which is broken up into 8 P-cores with Hyper Threading support and 16 E-cores.
