[The Exiled]

Intel Core i9-14900KS Review - The Last of its Kind

Averaged over the 45 tests in our application test suite, the Core i9-14900KS offers performance 2.8% higher than the 14900K, which is roughly in-line with expectations. While AMD's mighty 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X can win some specific duels, it still loses overall—the 14900KS is 6% faster. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D has plenty of cache, which helps in gaming, but not so much in applications, the 14900KS is 8% ahead. These are certainly not night-and-day differences, and other considerations like pricing and power consumption might end up being more important for you.

I think nobody is surprised that the 14900KS is a power hungry beast. As mentioned before, it is configured with a power limit setting of 320 W, which it can reach easily when loaded with apps that scale to all cores. On average, we measured an application power draw of 208 W, which is the highest we've ever recorded—30 W higher than the 14900K. With the 320 W power limit removed, average application power reaches 232 W, with a 508 W record in Blender. Yup, over 500 W for just the CPU alone.