These Intel KS CPUs Are Stupid And Are Making Intel Look Incompetent █

Tim essentially nails it in the opening minutes of the video. These chips aren’t interesting or impressive and I’m not sure why Intel keeps embarrassing themselves for a cheap “win” against AMD with these.

If anything it proves that just because you can do something with brute force doesn’t mean you should. I know I’ve been ragging on Intel for quite a while now but they deserve it, at least on the CPU side of the house. They’re not innovating, and they’re barely even competing at this point. The wattage to performance on Raptor Lake / Raptor Lake Refresh was already not good and someone at Intel thought it would be a good idea go and release this? I know these are supposed to be for “enthusiasts” and maybe over clockers but there is no justification for this sku to see the light of day. Any enthusiast that wanted a top end Intel chip already bought one months ago. Even if I were in this market I’m not sure what this offers me that a regular old 14900K does not other than bragging rights that I’m not even sure are good ones.

The power draw is insane (Base is 150W! Max is 500W!). The price is insane ($690 MSRP!). The performance is… not insane (~2-5% vs 14900K!). At least compared to other CPUs.

They had better hope Arrow Lake delivers on it’s performance promises and helps get that power consumption under control.

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