At CES 2024 some time ago, Intel officially brought a new 14th generation Core non-K processor, which is still built with Intel 7 process, with a maximum of 24 cores and 32 threads, mainly a slight increase in frequency compared with the previous generation, and some models have increased the number of cores and cache. At the same time, this year, Intel has also launched exclusive products for the Chinese mainland market, including the Core i7-14790F and Core i5-14490F models, and today we will see how they perform with you.
The specifications have been slightly upgraded.
This generation continues the tradition of the previous generation, with a black box, which is more noticeably different from other models.
Let's take a look at the specifications of the two CPUs first, the Core i7-14790F is positioned higher, it is still the Intel 7 process, high-performance hybrid architecture design, with 8 performance cores and 8 energy efficiency cores, a total of 16 cores and 24 threads, and the highest turbo frequency can reach 54GHz, 36MB** cache, base power consumption of 65W, maximum turbo power consumption of 219W.
Compared to the previous generation Core i7-13790F, the maximum turbo frequency of the P-core has been increased by 0At 2GHz, the maximum turbo frequency of the E-core has been increased by 01GHz,** cache increased by 3MB. However, it is worth mentioning that the Core i7-14790F is not the same as the Core i7-14700F, compared with the 13th generation model, 4 energy efficiency cores are added, using a combination of 8P+12E, although the **cache is more3MB, but there is bound to be a certain lag in multi-core performance.
The Core i5-14490F is also a high-performance hybrid architecture, with 6 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, a total of 10 cores and 16 threads, and a maximum turbo frequency of 49GHz, 24MB** cache, 65W base power consumption, maximum turbo power consumption up to 148W.
Compared with the previous generation Core i5-13490F, the base frequency and maximum turbo frequency of the P-core have been increased by 01GHz and 0At 3GHz, the base frequency and maximum turbo frequency of the e-core have been increased by 03ghz and 02GHz, the cache remained consistent. Compared to the Core i5-14400F, in addition to the frequency increase, there is also an additional 4MB of ** cache.
Overall, the two processors have not been upgraded very significantly compared to the previous products, that is, small changes in frequency and cache.
Theoretical performance test.
Before starting the test, I briefly introduced the test platform: ROG Strix Z790-F Gaming Wi-Fi motherboard, 16GB*2 Critical DDR5-5600 memory, 1TB Samsung 980 Pro+2TB Critical P5 Plus hard drive, ASUS TUFF RTX 3070Ti O8G Gaming graphics card, Limin Core Matrix 360 Black all-in-one liquid cooling, Xianma XP1200W snow version power supply.
Let's take a look at the theoretical performance test, including CPU-Z, Cinebench R20, Cinebench R23, GeekBench 5 and other software, the results are as follows:
Judging from the test results of various items, the Core i7-14790F has improved compared to the previous generation, but it is really not much, the single-core is about 1-3%, and the multi-core is only about 1-2%.
Let's take a look at another Core i5-14490F, and the test results are as follows:
Compared with the previous generation, the Core i5-14490F single-core performance has basically not changed, and the multi-core has increased by 3-5%.
In terms of theoretical performance, the improvement of the two products compared with the previous generation is not obvious, after all, they have only increased the frequency a little, which is also in line with my expectations.
Game performance testing.
Next, we enter the game performance test that everyone is very concerned about, with RTX 3070Ti graphics card, in order to avoid the bottleneck problem of the graphics card, the test uses 1080p resolution, the highest or second highest picture setting, and selects more than 10 games including "War Thunder", "Cyberpunk 2077", "Zero Dawn", "Borderlands", "Tomb Raider: Shadows" and so on.
Let's take a look at the Core i7-14790F first, and the results are as follows:
In general, the performance is still very good, with RTX 3070ti, you can deal with these games very easily, I also briefly compared it with the previous generation here, relying on higher frequencies and larger**cache, the frame rate of some games has been improved to a certain extent, the most obvious is online games like "War Thunder", which has increased by about 17%, and the improvement of large-scale stand-alone games is minimal.
Then there's the Core i5-14490F, and here's what it turned out to be:
Smooth gaming is fine, and compared to the previous generation, there is basically only a slight change in frequency, so there is no significant change in game performance.
Judging from the results, the Core i7-14790F relies on a larger** cache, which has a relatively obvious improvement in online games like "War Thunder", while the improvement of large-scale stand-alone games is very small. The Core i5-14490F, on the other hand, only has a small change in frequency, so there is basically no difference in gaming performance.
Office & Productivity Testing.
In addition to games, we also come to test the office and production creation capabilities, and also look at the Core i7-14790F first. The first is the most familiar PCMARK 10 modern office benchmark and application test, the former covers common basic functions, productivity, digital content creation and games and other scenarios, for web browsing, meetings, application launch, documents and writing, as well as editing, editing and graphics performance and other projects; The latter mainly tests the performance of the office software that we use most often in our daily office. Among them, the total score of the modern office benchmark test is 9460, and the application test is 18448, which are very excellent results, and the daily smooth browsing of the web, meetings, and the use of office software to edit documents, etc., are completely stress-free.
Then there are several professional software with a relatively high load,In addition to doing office,I often use the computer to process some**or editing**,The test program includes Photoshop、Premiere Pro,Run the Pugetbench test plug-in,It can simulate the user's daily **editing processing and**Editing operation,Among them, PS has achieved 1548 points,PR is 1096 points。
Crossmark's comprehensive test, which covers three dimensions: creativity, productivity and response speed, among which the productivity test examines the document editing, processing and web browsing performance of the whole machine; Creativity examines the editing, organization, and editing performance of the whole machine; The responsiveness examines the performance of the whole machine when the program is started, files are opened, and multi-tasking, which can well reflect the processing efficiency of the computer's daily affairs, mainly for the CPU performance test, with a score of 2374, which is very good.
Then there is the Core i5-14490F, which also looks at the PCMark 10 modern office benchmark and application test first, the former is 8541, and the latter is 15838, which is also quite high, and the daily office is very easy.
Then there is the Photoshop, Premiere Pro test, with a PS score of 1334 and a PR of 861 points.
In the Crossmark test, the total score also exceeded 2000, which was very good.
Both processors have good performance in terms of productivity, and it is very easy to cope with daily office, and professional software such as PS and PR can also run smoothly.
Review Summary. Overall,Core i7-14790F and Core i5-14490F compared with the previous generation of the improvement is relatively limited,Like other 14th generation desktop products,Some"Squeeze toothpaste",After all, there is no increase in the number of cores,It's just a slight increase in cache and frequency,For those users who are using the same level of core products,There is basically no need to upgrade,For users who are currently using11th generation and previous processors,You can consider it according to your needs。 Personally, I recommend the Core i5-14490F, **as with the Core i5-14400F, there is a slight increase in frequency, **the cache is even larger. And the Core i7-14790F is also consistent with the Core i7-14700F**, although it has a larger**cache, but it lags behind in the number of cores, and it is difficult to say what advantages there are.