Intel is cooking up a new gaming CPU that beats the Core i9 14900K, says leak

A new Intel document leak has surfaced, which appears to confirm that a new Intel gaming CPU is in the works with 12 P-Cores and no E-Cores. As it’s the P-Cores (where the P stands for “performance”) that are the most important ones for gaming when it comes to Intel CPUs, that would potentially make this new Intel CPU an even stronger gaming chip than the mighty Core i9 14900K.

The latter CPU only has eight P-Cores, with 16 lower-power E-Cores (where E stands for “efficiency”) pushing up the total to 24. However, it’s the eight P-Cores that make the Core i9 14900K the company’s best gaming CPU, especially with their sky-high turbo clock speed of up to 6GHz. As such, while this new Intel CPU appears to only have 12 cores, it looks like it could be a much better option for gaming than Intel’s chips with many cores, assuming the clock speed is high enough.

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