One of the most surprising developments in recent years related to Intel (in addition to all the problems they are having) is the turn they have made by starting to develop a series of processors that return to the origins of the company. And the company is preparing a series of CPUs that do not incorporate E-Cores, and the first one we have been able to see in action through a benchmark performed on Geekbench is the Intel Core i9-14901KE processor.
Among all the complaints that users have had about Intel processors in recent years is the company’s desire to offer a hybrid architecture that allows lower performance functions to be performed on the efficiency cores while applications that require more power are executed on the P-Cores. The main complaint comes from the problems caused by a program that switches from a P-Core to an E-Core, something that is vital for a user, so much so that they reconsider the use of this company’s processors.
Intel processors without E-Cores are now a reality
When we talk about Intel we always think about the way they distribute the cores of their processors, and it is practically impossible to name this company without mentioning the hybrid architecture that all the CPUs of its latest generations have included. We could say that this type of combination of performance and efficiency cores is already a trademark of the company, but the fact of wanting to reach more users has caused them to seek to offer processors that are very different from those they currently have.
As we already know, the company added a series of new processors to the official page where they show the details of each product, which came with changes that nobody expected, since they only included performance cores. The top-of-the-range model offered by the generation of these processors is the i9-14901KEwhich has already received a number of complaints from users for only incorporating eight cores, mainly because we are talking about a CPU that, in order to try to compete against its usual rival, should offer at least 12 cores.
Although we don’t yet know the exact details of when this product will be released, we can get an idea of its performance thanks to a test carried out using Geekbench, which shows us the score that the processor has in both Single-Core and Multi-Core. From the start we can see that the processor is not exactly bad, since it manages to obtain 3018 points, similar to what the i9-14900K offers with the detail that it works at a lower speed, since the model without E-Cores has a boost speed of 5.8 GHz while the original reaches 6 GHz.
In terms of multi-core scores, it is not far behind other processors from the brand, offering 16,308 points, similar to what we can find in the i9-12900K. The general configuration used in the test seems to be related to a gaming hosting server, both because of its name and the amount of RAM it has, which reaches up to 128 GB.