The only hardware change in the 14th gen stack, but it doesn’t do much.
WE’VE HEAVILY DOCUMENTED just how lackluster a launch Intel’s 14th generation of processors has been. At its best, it introduced an early look at APO and how Intel, with the help of Windows and Microsoft, can better leverage CPU resources to significantly boost performance across all manner of programs. At its worst, it gave us a 200 MHz overclock on the Intel Core i5- 13700K and called it a day.
It is, without a doubt, a bit of a ‘meh’ generation, hardly worthy of the fanfare of a generational number bump, particularly given we’re expecting Intel’s 15th series with the launch of the LGA1851 socket later this year. No, this one’s been an odd launch, that’s for sure. The Intel Core i7-14700K, however, is an intriguing unit, as it’s the only chip out of the revised product stack that has had any form of hardware enhancement compared to its 13th-generation counterpart.