Intel Core i9-14900K, Core i7-14700K and Core i5-14600K Review: Raptor Lake Refreshed
by Gavin Bonshor on October 17, 2023 9:00 AM ESTIntel AI Assist: A Better Guess At Auto Overclocking
Below, we'll give Intel's latest AI Assist feature via the Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) software to see what it believes is the best overclock for our system and how it compares to default settings. After applying Intel's AI Assist to our Core i9-14900K, it concluded that the following settings are suitable for our test setup:
Intel's AI Assist believes our system and Core i9-14900K is capable of 6.1 GHz on the two of the P-cores and 6.0 GHz on the remaining 6 P-cores, which, based on some preliminary testing with XTU, is very ambitious, to say the least. When running a CineBench R23 MT, the system was as stable as a kite in a hurricane; not very stable at all. We did manage to get a couple of CineBench R23 MT runs in, but with thermal throttling happening instantaneously, we saw some regression in performance with a score of 39445; temperatures went straight into the red, and the system dialed back the core frequencies and CPU V-Core.
The feature is a good idea in principle, but once enabled, even though it's an Intel-marketed feature, it voids the CPU's warranty. The other element is that the additional heat and power make the applied settings under intense workloads unstable. While this is still an early feature, we would have expected more stability with the applied settings than we saw in our testing.
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Gastec - Friday, October 20, 2023 - link
Maybe they do it through a proxy app, part of the overall package of Windows' Telemetry?pookguy88 - Tuesday, October 17, 2023 - link
you didn't have a 13700k to test against?shabby - Tuesday, October 17, 2023 - link
Yup pity, that would show us what those 4 e-cores can actually do.TheinsanegamerN - Tuesday, October 17, 2023 - link
I mean they still dont have a GPU test bed going on 3 years post fire. I wouldnt expect much.nandnandnand - Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - link
I recommend everyone go to Tom's Hardware if they are missing something here. They'll have the reviews, decent ones IMO, and are owned by the same company as AnandKek.TheinsanegamerN - Thursday, October 19, 2023 - link
Tom's Hardware was caught shilling for Nvidia eons ago. They're another dinosaur of the tech space.Techspot, Techpowerup, and reviewers like gamers nexus are the new hotness.
wrosecrans - Tuesday, October 17, 2023 - link
Some motherboards will let you just set a power limit. I'd like to see a benchmark where the power limit is set to only the advertising number (125 W) and see what it can do with that constraint. 400+ watts just seems insane. My laptop is currently suffering terrible battery life because the CPU throttles up and gets hot and cooks the laptop because of exactly this Power Be Damned philosophy. I want a quiet desktop that isn't going to cook me if I'm sitting next to it, and isn't going to just cook the motherboard components and fail after a few years.I was expecting the new chip to be slightly more power efficient with a year of design tweaks and improvements. (And you'll note Intel wants you to think this because they kept the 125W marketing power usage on the box.) I am kinda baffled how Intel is executing so poorly. Nobody had a gun to their head forcing them to release this product. There's some deeply broken structural inertia in the organization to just keep pumping out products and not disrupting the flow of new model numbers. Somebody in Intel should have been screaming and said the plan wasn't working, rather than just keeping their head down to deliver a new model number for no reason.
TheinsanegamerN - Tuesday, October 17, 2023 - link
If you want low power, get a ryzen. The 7800x3d tops out at just 50 watt.Performance loss, if anything like raptor lake (which this is) will be 15%+ down at 125 watt, more if they make heavy use of P cores.
schujj07 - Tuesday, October 17, 2023 - link
Andandtech did this with the 13900k vs 7950X at different TDP/PPT. Basically the Ryzen at 65W TDP or 88W PPT was faster than Intel at 125W TDP. Once the Ryzen was set to 105W TDP or 142W PPT the Intel needed 253W TDP to be faster. In fact the scaling on the Ryzem dropped off quite quickly over 105W TDP.mode_13h - Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - link
This: https://www.anandtech.com/show/17641/lighter-touch...