Intel announces 14th Gen Core CPUs for laptops and desktops

Intel will announce the Raptor Lake refresh at CES 2024 under the banner of 14th Gen Core, including performance-oriented HX laptop chips and new ‘mainstream’ desktop processors. A number of Raptor Lake U-refresh CPUs will also be released under the new brand name Series 1.

The fourteenth generation Intel Core processors are again produced on the Intel 7 node and therefore largely correspond to the equivalents from the thirteenth generation Raptor Lake CPUs. There will therefore also remain support for PCIe Gen 5.0, DDR4 and DDR5 memory and the same 600 and 700 series chipsets and associated sockets.

New 14th Gen HX Series

In most cases, the five new mobile CPUs have a few extra P or E cores and make some improvements at boost clock frequencies. The processors retain TDPs of between 55 and 157W and support for up to DDR5-5600 or DDR4-3200 memory. Furthermore, support for Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4 and Thunderbolt 5 is now possible, provided the system has the necessary hardware. In any case, the chips have integrated support for Wi-Fi 6E, Thunderbolt 4 and Bluetooth 5.3.

The refresh includes five new mobile CPUs within the HX series, including the top model, the Core i9-14900HX. The chip contains eight performance cores and sixteen energy-efficient cores for a total of 32 threads, which corresponds to the equivalent from the original Raptor Lake series from 2023. The boost clock speeds of the P and E cores, on the other hand, have been increased from 5.4 to 5. 8GHz and from 3.9 to 4.1GHz. The base clock of the P-cores has decreased by 200MHz.

Intel is making slightly bigger changes with the Core i7-14700HX and the i7-14650HX. The highest positioned i7 model now has eight performance cores and twelve E-cores, or four extra energy-efficient cores compared to the original 13th Gen model. The Core i7-14650HX has both eight P and eight E cores, meaning two extra performance cores have been added. The boost clock speeds of the P-cores have increased by 500 and 300MHz respectively.

The two new i5 models from the fourteenth generation of Intel CPUs have the same core configurations as before, but in most cases receive a slightly higher boost clock frequency than last year under the same TDP. The P-cores of the i5-14500HX and i5-14450HX have a 200MHz higher boost clock. The E-cores of the chips respectively maintain the same clock frequency and improve by 100MHz.

Addition to 14th Gen desktop processors and new Processor 300

During the fair, Intel will also announce an addition to the existing fourteenth generation desktop processors. In October, the brand announced several K variants within the 14th Gen Core series. According to the brand, the non-K CPUs announced at CES 2024 are intended for “mainstream PC users.” A total of eighteen new processors for desktops have been announced. In all cases, these are CPUs with a TDP between 35 and 65W, compared to a base power of 125W for the K models.

In particular, the 14900 top models that have recently been announced are significantly deteriorating in terms of basic clock frequency to remain within the TDP of 65W. While the K variants had a P-core clock frequency of 3.2GHz, the i9-4900, 14900F and 14900T have respective clock speeds of 2GHz, 2GHz and 1.1GHz. The boost clock frequencies of these chips are less affected, as apart from the T model the maximum turbo TDPs are not much lower than before. The fourteenth generation i5-14600 models will also receive a cache upgrade, because these processors now have 20MB of L2 memory instead of the 11.5MB in the i3-13600.

Furthermore, the two new basic models stand out. The Intel Processor 300 and Processor 300T both have only two P-cores and a total of four threads. These processors only have a base clock frequency of 3.9 and 3.4GHz respectively, with TDPs of 46 and 35W.

Intel Core Cores P+E / Threads Max Turbo P+E Base Freq. P+E L2 cache L3 cache GPU (non-F) Power Base-Max

*The Core i3-14100F has a slightly lower base TDP of 58 instead of 60 watts

Introduction Raptor Lake U-refresh Series 1

Finally, Intel announces several updated Raptor Lake U processors that will be called Series 1. This concerns the Intel Core 7 Processor 150U, Core 5 Processor 120U and Core 3 Processor 100U. These are the new models, which, as previously announced, no longer use the ‘i’ brand name. The CPUs have different configurations of Raptor Cove performance cores and Gracemont-E cores. The clock speeds of these processors are somewhat higher than the original equivalents.

These Series 1 CPUs support a maximum of 96GB DDR5-5200 or DDR4-3200 memory and have an unspecified Intel Graphics GPU on board. The basic and turbo TDPs are the same for all models: 15 and 55W.