No increased core count
MSI made the mistake of sharing a video MSI’s latest Intel 700 motherboard series and upcoming PC cases which happens to show some details that Chipzilla would not want public yet.
While most of the video focuses on improvements for these motherboards, there is a slide explaining Intel’s next-gen Core series in a short form.
This slide confirmed that Intel’s 14th Gen Core series will see no major core count upgrades. Only one of the upcoming K-series CPUs will see a core change for its hybrid configuration of Performance and Efficient.
The Core i7-14700K is getting 12 Efficient cores, which is an upgrade over 8 E-cores the Core i7-13700K. The Core i9-14900K, now confirmed by MSI will use the same 8P+16E configuration.
This applies to Core i5-14600K with 6P+8E config. The CPU series will use the same Intel 7 process technology and will only provide higher DDR5 frequency support.
The company confirms that Intel’s 14th Gen Core is three per cent faster on average compared to the current-generation series. The most important upgrade involves the Core i7-14700K which has up to 17 per cent faster multi-threaded (MT) performance due to extra cores.
The video has since been taken down but the slide was salvaged first.
