A few weeks after the launch of the Intel Core 13 for desktop computers, its specifications have been completely leaked and they bring with them very bad news. Especially due to the rise in the price of electricity, since the new models can consume much more and be more expensive in the long term due to their impact on the electricity bill. Does Intel need to reform its approach to the consumption of its processors? How much do the new Intel Core 13 consume?
One of the particularities of Intel desktop processors in recent years are the so-called PL1 and PL2 modes. The first of these is the normal operation of the processor, the second is a much higher consumption to reach higher speeds. By logic PL2 lasts a very short period of time to avoid excessive overheating of the processor, but in that period we can find that they can double the TDP. Which has led the blue mark to a paradoxical situation, since if a few years ago AMD was accused of poor performance per watt compared to its rival, now this is happening to Intel.
The Intel Core 13 can reach up to 253 W
This is not what we say, but the official Intel document where the specifications of the different processors of the Intel Core 13 desktop range, also known as Raptor Lake-S, are reported. As you can see in the far right column, in the image below we find that the i7-13700KF, the i7-13700K, the i9-13900KF and the i9-13900K can reach 253 W of power consumption. A figure 12 W higher than the 241 W of its predecessors. While the most modest models remain at 181 W , 11 W more TDP than the top of the range of its rival, the Ryzen 7000.
As for the most important changes from one architecture to another, we really already knew most of them. We have things like increased E-Cores and cache sizes that were previously known, as well as support for faster DDR5 memory . In general, it is not a radical change like the one we saw in Intel Core 12 and we find ourselves rather with an optimized version of its predecessor, with the ability to reach higher speeds and with greater performance in multithreading.
Chipset Changes for Intel Z790 Motherboards
Another of the information that we have seen officially leaked is the specifications of the Z790 chipset, which will be launched at the same time as the Intel Core 13 and we will be able to install both twelfth and thirteenth generation processors in it, by using the socket LGA1700.
And what improvements are there compared to Z690? Well, apparently they are rather few, to begin with we have gone from 16 PCI Express 3.0 lines to 8 and from 12 PCI Express 4.0 lines to 20 . Which means that in the case of PCIe the total bandwidth has increased. For the rest there are no changes to highlight or at least we have not yet seen them filtered.
