If you thought Intel had already strung every drop of performance out of its top Raptor Lake die, you'd be wrong. Though it does appear that it's getting tougher and tougher for the company to crank up clock speeds. The unreleased Core i9 14900KS has been spotted in the OCCT benchmark database with a supposed multiplier of 62x—it's aiming at 6.2GHz, effectively—and with peak wattage exceeding 400W.
Crikey, that's one helluva hungry computer chip, as spotted by Benchleaks on X. That's the sort of wattage we can expect from a high-end graphics card. Though this is only two limited benchmark runs and the final product hasn't been announced yet.
