It was hardly a secret that Intel was engaged on a brand new, suped-up model of its quickest Core i9 processor — it was leaking far and wide earlier this month. But it appears notably becoming that the corporate released the i9-14900KS yesterday on March 14th, identified to math nerds as Pi Day. (Get it?) The new chip was used to interrupt information for the Super Pi benchmark program.

If you didn’t know, Super Pi is a Windows program that calculates the value of pi to 32 million digits. The quicker your processor, the quicker it might use the single-threaded program to calculate the worth. It’s about so simple as it might get as a way of measuring a pc’s literal number-crunching efficiency.

So naturally, when Intel formally unveiled the Core i9-14900KS, which may attain speeds of 6.2GHz even with out overclocking, it did so on Pi Day, 3-14 in American notation. And after all maxing out the Super Pi benchmark was one of many first issues customers did with it.

The i9-14900KS now holds the top two spots on the public leaderboard, at 3.662 seconds and three.768 seconds to run the calculation. Noted overclocker specialist Allen “Splave” Golibersuch bought the brand new CPU operating as much as 8.44Ghz, most likely utilizing his unimaginable custom-built, liquid nitrogen-powered cooling setup. That’s a rise of 700 megahertz over his previous Core i9-14900K.

For just a little comparability, I simply ran the Super Pi program on my home-built PC, which I not too long ago upgraded with a new AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D. That’s a darn good CPU, particularly for gaming…nevertheless it doesn’t maintain a candle to Intel’s 24-core, $700 beast and Splave’s overclocking expertise. My 32-million-digit calculation took six minutes, 4 seconds.

I’m going guilty it on operating WordPress in Chrome on the similar time.