The Intel Core i9-14901KE has been spotted on Geekbench’s database. This spot comes to us via BenchLeaks and sees the new Intel CPU place just 4th in the Single-core benchmark lineup. The 14901KE is the P-core-only CPU from Intel designed for embedded workloads, not necessarily for gaming. Intel has gone back to basics with an all-multithreaded performance core configuration, just like the day’s pre-12th gen.
This introduction has been pretty quiet and has not seen a whole lot of attention or marketing for that matter. likely because Intel wants to keep a low profile right now with everything going on. Hopefully, this CPU doesn’t suffer from the microcode degradation issues that have been plaguing the 13th and 14th gen CPUs.
The 14901KE has a higher base core speed than the 14900K of 3.8GHz, which is 600MHz higher. The interesting part of this is that the boost clock is 200MHz slower, 5.0GHz. Likely to keep the 125W TDP that it shared with the 14900K from going any higher. According to Videocardz, this is the only “K” version of the embedded lineup.
In the Geekbench tests, the 14901KE scored 3018 points in the single-core benchmarks and 16,308 points in the multi-core tests. That puts the KE in just 4th place after the 14900KF, followed closely by the 14700K. Despite the massive hit to its core count, the KE manages to beat the multi-core score of the 12900KS, a CPU that has almost a cult following at this point.
It remains to be seen how these chips will fit into the mainstream market, and with Arrow-Lake rapidly approaching, will anyone even care after that?
