Intel Core i3 14100F CPU Review

Blender 3.3.0

Blender Open Data is a platform to collect, display and query the results of hardware and software performance tests – provided by the Blender community.

Available now on Blender.

Blender didn’t turn out to be all that impressive, with just a single sample per minute increase over the 13100F, but this is the same level of improvement we saw going up from the 12th gen to the 13th gen, so it’s not exactly surprising, to say the least. Whilst you could say that it draws the 14th-generation CPU closer to the 5600 from AMD, in reality, it wouldn’t make a perceivable difference, making it feel a little pointless.

Cinebench R23

Cinebench is a real-world cross-platform test suite that evaluates your computer’s hardware capabilities. Improvements to Cinebench Release 23 reflect the overall advancements to CPU and rendering technology in recent years, providing a more accurate measurement of Cinema 4D’s ability to take advantage of multiple CPU cores and modern processor features available to the average user. Best of all: It’s free.

Available now on Maxon.

Moving on to Cinebench, we’ll start by looking at the single core performance where, to no one’s surprise, 14100 manages to perform a little better than the 13 and 12100Fs with 3% improvement over the 13th gen CPU and 9% over the 12th gen CPU. Interestingly, it also performs a very small 0.1% higher than the 7600 from AMD, but this result flips in favour of the 7600 when we look at the multi-core performance, where now the 14100 falls 1% behind the 7600. The Intel CPU does still manage to keep its lead over the older 100 series CPUs however, with 4% more performance over the 13100F and 10% more performance over the 12100F, again though, in the grand scheme of things, this doesn’t look like much.

Corona 1.3

Test and compare the performance of your CPU using this free benchmark application, which is built upon Corona Renderer 1.3.

Available now on Corona

Shifting to Corona we see pretty much the same thing, with a small improvement over the 13th gen, of just 3%, which is arguably the margin of error, this is a little worse than the improvement we saw going from 12th gen to 13th gen, where the improvement was 4% and with higher numbers too which makes the percentages appear smaller. But with something like this, you are better off with the 12400 which sees a massive 42% improvement over the 14100, and for less money too.

Keyshot Viewer 11.2.1

KeyShot Viewer is a free, stand-alone desktop application that enables secure sharing of KeyShot scenes for interactive, photo-realistic 3D model viewing, presentation and configuration, using the same real-time ray tracing render engine as KeyShot to produce amazing visuals with speed and quality.

Available now on KeyShot.

Keyshot Viewer is up next and we see the same pattern as the previous few tests, we are seeing very small improvements over the 13th and 12th gen processors, and once again we see better value propositions from older CPUs, the 12400, for example, has a pretty big jump of 40% more performance for less money, and if this type of thing continues, you’d really have to ask yourself why you would spend the money on a 14100 when there are pre-existing CPUs that cost less and will provide a better experience overall.

V-Ray 5.00.20

V-Ray® Benchmark is a free standalone application to test how fast your system renders. It’s simple, fast and includes three render engine test.

Available now on Chaos.

V-Ray doesn’t show us anything different from what we’ve already seen, the 14100 sits a small margin above the performance of the 13100F and the 12100F with a 6% and 9% increase respectively, these numbers are certainly better than a lot of what we’ve seen up to now, but when you consider the 31% jump up to the next best-performing CPU, the 7600, it all of a sudden doesn’t seem that impressive.