[CES 2024] Intel Completes 14th Gen Lineup, Introduces Core U-Series Processors

Intel Completes 14th Gen Lineup, Introduces Core U-Series Processors

In this year’s CES event, Intel is announcing a new lineup of processors as usual – and this time around the lineup consists of the remainder of the 14th Gen family in both desktop and mobile platforms, as well as the expansion of the new Core Ultra Series 1 processors.

Starting with the 14th Gen HX-series – coming to a new heavyweight gaming laptop near you, this family of processors builds on the 13th Gen lineup with increased clocks up to 5.8GHz, as well as offering discrete Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth LE audio, and the ultra-fast Thunderbolt 5 connectivity on select designs. Like the desktop counterpart, both Core i7 models (14700HX & 14650HX) see increased core counts and L3 cache over their predecessors.

Team Blue’s first-party benchmarks pit the Core i9-14900HX against AMD’s flagship Ryzen 9 7945HX (and the 7945HX3D), without the APO enabled. The Core i9 managed to beat the standard Ryzen 9, though it’s a bit of back-and-forth between the Core i9 and the Ryzen 9 X3D chip depending on the game, while the 1% lows hands the Core i9 a convincing victory.

For Core i7 and Core i9 SKUs, Intel also enables per-app APO (Intel Application Optimization) that promises up to +18% performance uplift. Meanwhile, Intel also claims a big advantage for Core i9 over Ryzen 9 on productivity applications, as seen in the chart above.

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Moving onto desktop SKUs – the new 65W/35W models complete the 14th Gen desktop lineup, with a total of 18 models now available. For these processors, the retail box will come included with a Laminar RM1 cooler (or Laminar RH1 for Core i9 chips). Performance improvements over the 13th Gen remain minuscule – though the first-party benchmarks do show advantage over AMD’s equivalent Ryzen 9 7900 processor.

Finally, Intel also introduces three new chips under the Core U-Series family (not to be confused with Core Ultra), namely the Core 7 150U, Core 5 120U, and Core 3 100U. These chips come supported with slower RAM over their Core Ultra counterparts, at LPDDR5X-6400 or DDR5-5200 (there’s also DDR4 RAM support too). All three chips come with a pair of P-cores and differ in E-core counts, as well as clock speeds.

Pokdepinion: Definitely took me a good minute to realize the U-Series is called Core, not Core Ultra.