So first things first. With any pre-built system, we want to make sure that everything is working as it should in terms of the clock speed, which as our screenshot confirms, it is boosting to 6.2GHz, along with the memory and making sure that it’s running at its rated XMP speed of 6400MHz, and rated timings for that speed too.
In terms of the memory, the best way to see the throughput is using AIDA64 which being an Intel based system, gives us oodles of speed across the read, write and copy tests, as well as low latency at 67.8ns.
The Blender benchmark is a little on the low side, where we typically rely on the “classroom” result, but this could be for a variety of reasons including temperatures making the system thermal throttle but overall, it’s within the range that we’d expect anyway.
Cinebench gives us a single score that is right on the money at 136 points, while the multi-core score is slightly low at 2091 points. We’d typically expect to see a little over 2100 points, but this would be such a small percentage jump in terms of performance that it’s still within margin of error.
CrystalDiskMark is a good way to show performance of an NVME drive, like the WD Black SN850X that’s installed in this system. Looking at the rated speeds of 7300MB/s read and 6600MB/s write, considering this drive is the boot drive, and is running Windows from it, I’m perfectly happy with the results that we obtained. The read speed is lower, but that’s expected as the drive is in use for Windows, but the write speed is bang on the money.
For 3DMark Time Spy, our scores align perfectly with what you’d expect and are consistent with what high-end systems featuring these components generally produce in this benchmark.
To analyse a bit more into the Core i9 14900KS and its performance, we ran the 3DMark CPU Profile benchmark test, and this test confirms that our 14900KS is running as expected across various threaded workloads from single threaded, all the way up to max threads and demonstrate strong performance across the board.
In the 3DMark RTX test, a system with an RTX 4090 would typically expect to see performance between 135 to 145 FPS so at 140.47 FPS, we’re perfectly within that range, sitting somewhere in the middle.
In PCMark 10, we had a score of 10183, which again sits perfectly within the range that’s expected of a system with an i9 14900KS and RTX 4090 with scores typically being between 9,500 and 11,000.
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