Intel Core i9-14900KS Review: The Fastest Desktop CPU Yet
Intel Core i9-14900KS Review: 3D Rendering, Audio and Video Encoding
LAME XP Audio Encoding
Blackmagic RAW Video Encoding Speed
Cinebench R23 Rendering Benchmark
Like its immediate predecessor, the Core i9-14900KS breaks the 40K barrier in Cinebench's multi-threaded test, and lands in the top spot. The Core i9-14900KS also offered the best single-threaded score of the group by a comfortable margin.
POV-Ray CPU Ray Tracing Benchmark
POV-Ray's results look very much like Cinebench. The Core i9-14900KS scores another pair of victories, besting all of the other processors in both the single and multi-threaded tests.
Blender Rendering Benchmarks
Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite that can handle everything from modeling, rigging, and animation to simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking. It has a purpose-built benchmarking tool that will track the time it takes to complete rendering a particular model (or models). We used the CPU-focused benchmark with all three models currently available...
The heavily threaded, modern workloads of Blender push all of the P-cores on the Core i9-14900KS to their limit, and as a result, it performs right on top of the Core i9-13900KS. AMD's current flagship Ryzen 9 7950X takes the overall lead here, however.
Y-Cruncher Multi-Threaded Pi Calculator
The Core i9-14900KS finishes in first place yet again, albeit by a very small margin versus the previous gen Core i9-13900KS. AMD's top-end chip, however, finishes a few seconds behind.
STARS Euler3d Multi-Threaded CFD Benchmark
This benchmark is multi-threaded, but is also dependent on platform bandwidth, and cache and memory latency, so the final results are not determined by compute performance alone. Cache sizes / speed and memory bandwidth affect the score as well...
This benchmark runs exceptionally well on Intel's Raptor Lake-S based processors, thanks to their larger caches, high-clocks, and increased memory bandwidth. While all of Intel's top-end processor populate the top of the chart, the Core i9-14900KS technically trails some of its siblings by a small margin. This kind of delta is just statistical noise in this aging benchmark, however.