The results of testing the Core i9-14900K processor in tasks that can actually load modern multi-core processors have appeared on the Internet.

In Blender, the new product scores almost 560 points, which is 6% more than the Core i9-13900KS. This is good considering that these are technically identical CPUs. The new product is already 8% ahead of its direct predecessor, the Core i9-13900K. However, the Ryzen 9 7950X is still a little faster.

In V-Ray, the new Intel flagship showed a result of 27,790 points, ahead of the Core i9-13900KS by 5% and its predecessor by 8%. But here again the AMD flagship is ahead.

Of course, it was clear in advance that Raptor Lake Refresh would only be a very minor update (except for the Core i7, which will get more cores), but now we can verify this not only through the results from Geekbench.

An AMD roadmap has leaked online, describing a number of key features of the company’s future products. It was obtained by the author of the Moore’s Law Is Dead channel.

The document, among other things, describes the Zen 5 and Zen 6 architectures.

The first to hit the market, of course, will be Zen 5, codenamed Nirvana. The first CPUs based on it are expected in the first half of 2024. Processors with Zen 5 architecture will be produced using 3 and 4 nm technical processes and will bring an increase in IPC (the number of instructions executed per clock cycle) by 10-15%. It is also known that the data cache of Zen 5 will be increased to 48 KB, a new low-power core version will appear, and Zen 5 will also bring a 16-core cluster. Probably, only Zen 5c cores will be combined with 16 pieces, but this still means that the total number of cores in the new processors will increase and finally exceed the 16 pieces mark that we have become accustomed to since the Ryzen 3000.

Zen 6, codenamed Morpheus, is expected to move to 3nm and 2nm process technology and will be released sometime in 2025. The IPC indicator will increase by 10%, that is, not as much as in recent years. But the architecture will bring support for FP16 computing to accelerate AI/ML algorithms and a new memory profiler. Moreover, processor clusters will be able to have 32 cores each, which means that we will again see an increase in the number of cores in the CPU as a whole.

Moore’s Law Is Dead profiled many AMD products before they were released. In particular, the Radeon RX 7800 and Radeon RX 7700 video cards several months before the announcement.

Today, AMD FSR 3 technology is coming to the market, which is designed to compete with DLSS 3. The first game to already receive FSR 3 was Forspoken. Patch 1.22 is already available, so anyone with a suitable graphics card can try out the technology.

Let us remind you that FSR 3, like DLSS 3, can complete the drawing of frames. AMD calls it Motion Fluid Frames, and this technology, unlike Nvidia Frame Generation, is not tied to hardware, therefore, like FSR 3 in general, it works on a variety of video cards not only from AMD.

In particular, AMD itself talks about the need to have a Radeon RX 5000 or newer accelerator, GeForce RTX 20 or newer and Intel Arc A7. But at the same time, technically the technology can work on older adapters: all that remains is to wait for the tests.