The presentation of the Ryzen 7000 by AMD, made last week, still lacks an answer from Intel. The reason is that the blue mark is not going to sit idly by and everything indicates that the thirteenth generation of the Intel Core will see the light of day within a few weeks of its rivals based on Zen 4. So we are going to see an interesting battle between both processors. Well, we have been able to learn new information such as the performance of the i9-13900K and the possible list of models of the Intel Core 13.
The Intel Core 13 processors, under the Raptor Lake architecture, will be the last of all in many aspects. For example, it will be the last generation of CPUs to use the Intel 7 node, it will also be the last time we see a single chip, since from the fourteenth generation they will all be disaggregated. Most likely there will be no future Intel Core processors that support DDR4, as well as being the last to run under the LGA1700 socket.
This would be the performance of the i9-13900K
To begin with, we must clarify that the figures do not correspond to a sample of quality or to the version that will reach the stores. If not the previous step, that is the engineering sample. Which Intel usually sends to motherboard manufacturers to test the operation of the new processor, adapt their designs and report the results to avoid things like massive failures due to poor communication between both parties. They are also the best way to get an idea of the power of a future generation of processors.
Well, an i9-12900K has been compared with an i9-13900K using a motherboard with a Z690 chipset, the same model in both, a DDR5-4800 RAM in the same configuration and an RTX 3090 as a graphics card. The application to make it has been AIDA64 and in it you can see some improvements in the design of the Raptor Lake beyond the 8 additional E-Cores.
- With the speed fixed at 4.9 GHz , the i9-12900K reaches a maximum TDP of 280 W and 86 ° C average temperature , while the i3-13900K stays at 180 W and 61 ° C. Which means that energy efficiency or performance per watt has improved. Which is good news for a CPU that at first glance seems like a minor upgrade.
- If, instead, the clock speed is raised to 5.2 GHz through overclocking , it still happens that the i9-12900K still loses the battle in this aspect, but the differences are trimmed . The TDP only differs by 10W and the temperature becomes 76°C versus 86°C.
It also sweeps Cinebench and GPU-Z
In fact, what interests us are the figures, since without them our limited mind cannot get an idea of how much better the i9-13900K is over its direct predecessor. As you can see from the image below, the 13th generation of Cores is going to be a bigger leap than we expect and has us chomping at the bit to see how it compares to the Ryzen 7000.
All Intel Core 13 models leaked?
At the same time, and in recent days, a table has been leaked whose origin could be a document from Intel itself where there are all kinds of details about the configurations and even the Overclocking options according to the number of active cores. In any case, the release date is currently October 20, so nothing is missing to have these new CPUs in our hands.
As can be seen in the list, models with a TDP of 65 W also appear, which are expected in early 2023 and would not be part of the initial batch. Or not?