The impending 14th Generation Raptor Lake Refresh central processing units (CPUs) from Intel have been evaluated in the top-down simulation building game Factoio; nevertheless, the performance of these CPUs is much inferior to that of AMD’s Ryzen 3D V-Cache processors.
The performance of Intel’s 14th Generation Central Processing Units (CPUs) is only slightly improved over that of the 13th Generation’s chips, and they are soundly defeated by AMD’s Ryzen 3D V-Cache Chips.
The benchmarks were developed by individuals working at Computerbase. These individuals produced the data for a variety of processors, including Intel 14th Gen CPUs, AMD Ryzen 7000, and Ryzen 5000 Ryzen 3D V-Cache chips. The Core i91-4900K, Core i7-14700K, and Core i5-14600K are all examples of processors that belong to the 14th Generation.
It is anticipated that all of these central processing units will be on sale the next week, and we have a very good idea of all there is to know about these chips. In fact, it has been claimed that people are already purchasing them in advance of their introduction.
In terms of performance metrics, Factorio is not at all an extremely graphics- or CPU-intensive game. Visually, the game is predominantly 2D, although it does contain some Ryzen 3D components. Having said that, the game makes use of a statistic that is known as UPS, which stands for updates per second and basically determines how quickly a CPU is able to perform computations. If you have a higher UPS rate, your factories will be able to run in actual seconds at a quicker rate compared to if you have a lower UPS rate.
Intel 14th Gen vs. AMD Ryzen 3D V-Cache Performance
Therefore, in terms of performance, it would appear that the 14th Generation Raptor Lake Refresh Desktop CPUs do not offer much of an improvement over the 13th Generation chips. It turns out that the Core i9-14900K is 3.7% quicker than the Core i9-13900K, the Core i7-14700K is 6.8% faster than the Core i7-13700K, and the Core i5-14600K is 1.2% faster than the Core i5-13600K. However, the publication also compared the chips against the AMD Ryzen 7000 and Ryzen 5000 and Ryzen 3D V-Cache chips, and the results showed that it is an assault.
- Intel Core i9 14900K vs Core i9-13900K – +3.7%
- Intel Core i7-14700K vs Core i7-13700K – +6.8%
- Intel Core i5-14600K vs Core i5-13600K – +1.2%
It turns out that the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D is 63% quicker than the Intel Core i9-14900K, which is the fastest 14th Generation CPU, while the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is just 23% faster than the 14th Generation flagship. This is a significant improvement in overall performance, and one possible explanation for such a significant improvement in overall performance is that the Ryzen 3D V-Cache technology is something that this game may benefit from.
Since there are no non-D 3D V-Cache chips being compared here, we are unable to definitively state whether or not it is the Ryzen 3D V-Cache technology that is providing this boost, or whether or not it is something else. There is no explicit comment by the Factorio developers that they have optimized a particular vendor’s CPUs; nonetheless, it is possible that a general optimization has been performed towards AMD CPUs.
There is a difference in performance of around +2.56% between the Core i9-14900K and the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, as illustrated in official presentations presented by Intel. The 14900K triumphed over the 7950X3D in certain games by a margin of up to +23%, but on other occasions, it was defeated by it by a margin of about -23%. These results were gathered from a variety of games. In all likelihood, the performance of the i9-14900K will wind up being very similar to that of the 13900K, with the exception of some applications that will see benefits as a result of higher clock rates.
