RAPTOR LAKE IS OVER, WHAT’S NEXT?
INTEL’S RAPTOR LAKE chips have been an interesting generation compared to some of the iterative updates we’ve seen from Team Blue over the years. The 14th gen in particular hasn’t exactly knocked the socks off the team here at MaximumPC.
Comparatively, the 14600K only had a clock speed bump compared to last gen, the 14900K got a clock-speed bump and access to APO (application optimization), which was fairly under whelming at launch, and the 14700K, the only chip to receive a clock speed increase plus significant hardware changes (namely four additional efficient cores), has only helped to blur the lines between the Core i7 and the Core i9 even further, particularly given APO’s lackluster arrival.