A few days ago it was learned that Intel would be thinking of increase the core count of at least one of your refurbished Raptor Lake CPUs, generation that is supposed to come out this year. Specifically, it would be the advanced range model i7-14700K. It seems that this updated chip is already in the hands of some users, since new benchmarks of it have been leaked, with some details blurred.
This CPU could present itself as a good upgrade option for some Alder or Raptor Lake users, as it can provide up to 20% improvement in multicore tests. There is the question of whether Intel would have added a few more cores to other CPUs in the Raptor Lake Refresh family to make it more attractive, or if this would be the only model that would benefit from a core upgrade.
At least a Raptor Lake refresh would have more cores compared to the original, which according to a benchmark, would be the i7-14700K
A Twitter account that often leaks hardware has shared a screenshot showing the Intel i7-14700K running various benchmarks. There are AIDA64, Cinebench and CPU-Z among them. Twitter user Wxnod has shared the screenshot, of which he has blurred the part where the number of cores is indicated.
According to Tom's Hardware, another Twitter user discovered the blurred details, and saw that has 20 cores and 28 threads. This would be a slight improvement over the Core i7-13700K, which has a configuration of 8 P cores and 8 E cores for a total of 16 cores and 24 threads. The 14700K's configuration of 8+12 would mean it would have four efficient cores. That difference would have improved results in multicore workloads, as the included benchmarks show.
In PCMag's benchmark of the i7-13700K, it scored 28.192 in Cinebench, while the 14700K scored 32.696. This represents an improvement of 28%. In the same test, single-core performance was essentially the same between chips, which isn't surprising given that this is an upgrade. The leaked tests show that there is also an improvement in the performance of the cache and the amount of memory.
