Among Intel’s upcoming fourteenth-generation processors is the Core i9 14900T. With its “T” suffix, this processor is clearly aimed at energy efficiency. In fact, its TDP immediately gives us a hint: 106W, more than half the 253W of the 14900K!
Core i9 14900T: a really interesting model?
Via the Geekbench 6 database, we can come across the following scores:
- Single core: 3,019 pts
- Multi core: 16,385 pts
In broad terms, with this performance, it can compete with AMD’s 65W offering… Notably the Ryzen 9 7900 non-X, which boasts 2,823 pts and 16,750 pts respectively in single and multi-core. However, compared with AMD’s CPU, these scores are achieved at higher power consumption.
Compared with a Core i9 14900K, it’s not far behind. The overclockable CPU of the team blue scores 3,186 pts and 20,961 pts. In broad terms, in single-core mode, it represents 95% of the performance of its K counterpart, compared with 78% in multicore mode.
However, there’s a world of difference when it comes to features. In turbo mode, the 14900T reaches 5.5 GHz vs. 6 GHz, while the base frequency is 1.1 GHz vs. 3.2 GHz for the K version. Similarly, the TDP (PL2) is just 106W vs. 253W for the other Intel processor.
As Tom’s Hardware points out, in order to achieve such high scores, it’s highly likely that the power consumption under test was close to its consumption limit.
In the meantime, this model, although announced in January by Intel, is still not commercially available. However, it could prove interesting in a compact machine where high power consumption is to be avoided.
