Benchmarks: Spider-Man 2 and Shadow of the Tomb Raider
In Spider-Man 2, the 14600K comes in with a 19% uplift in the averages and a similarly impressive 20% increase in the 1% lows. The 14700K improves on that with a 21% uplift in the averages and a 22% increase in the 1% lows. However, the crown for variance comes down to the 14900K with 26% faster performance in the averages and 31% more frames in the 1% lows. This shows that certain games handle performance differently, but depending on your exact setup and mainly GPU, this could equate to taking an unplayable game into a playable state.
Then in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, we find our dual-channel setup besting the single-channel on the 14600K setup by 13% in the averages and 17% in the 1% lows. The 14700K comes in similar, seeing a 12% uplift in the averages and 18% more frames in the lows. The more interesting result is on the 14900K, which does see a similar 13% increase in frames in the averages but smooths things out dramatically in the lows to the tune of 33%. This is more through the fault of the CPU in single-channel mode getting quite a low result; retesting did garner a similar result and the best of three was taken.
