This is a good value highend CPU, but then so is its cheaper predecessor.
FOR THE FASTEST CHIP ever to grace a gaming PC, the Intel Core i9 14900K is about as boring a CPU refresh as one could be. We’ve seen it all before: the massive core count, the architecture, the 6GHz clock speed. The 14900K might do some things better than the 13th Gen, but it rarely matters. That doesn’t make it any less of an awesome gaming chip—it just doesn’t push the needle forward much.
The 14900K struggles to deliver anything new. It’s marginally faster than its predecessor, the 13900K, though its minor improvements do not deliver significant improvement in games. You may see marginally bigger numbers in synthetic benchmarks, but those are the only times you’re going to feel that performance boost.