First Intel Core i9-13900K sample gaming benchmarks appear online
A reviewer on the Chinese platform Bilibili has tested a qualification sample of an Intel Core i9-13900K processor from the Raptor Lake series in several games. In this, the cpu performs better than the current Core i9-12900KF and consumes more power.
The Bilibili reviewer Extreme Player says he has a qualification sample of the upcoming Core i9-13900K in his hands and publishes about it a video with gaming benchmarks. Intel provides such samples, for example, to OEMs and motherboard manufacturers to help design their products. Such processors already appeared on the Chinese black market a few weeks ago, wrote VideoCardz then.
The Core i9-13900K gets eight P-cores and sixteen E-cores, for a total of 24 cores and 32 threads. That corresponds with information that Intel released earlier itself. Extreme Player tested the processor on an ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Extreme motherboard, for which already a bios version with Raptor Lake support is available. The test system also had 32GB of DDR5-6400 memory, a GeForce RTX 3090 Ti video card, a 1500W power supply and a 360mm AIO water cooler for the processor. The processor was clocked at 5.5GHz during the benchmarks.
Benchmark results of the Core i9-13900K sample. Source: ExtremePlayer, via Bilili and harukaze5719 via Twitter.
The upcoming Raptor Lake processor will outperform the Core i9-12900KF on average at 1080p, according to Extreme Player’s review that collected by Twitter user harukaze5719. At 1440p that is 7.01 percent and on 4k that percentage is 3.31 percent. The frame times and minimum frame rates are also better on the 13900K. At the same time, the power consumption of the Core i9-13900K is between 3 and 33W higher, with peaks of around 160W.
Extreme Player previously tested the Core i9-13900K in apps and synthetic benchmarks, in which the processor offered an average of 10 percent better single-core performance and 35 percent better performance in multi-threaded workloads. Also in these tests, the Core i9-13900K consumed more power than its predecessor, with a package tdp that peaked to 420W in Intel’s proprietary XTU benchmarking tool.
Intel is expected to officially announce the first Raptor Lake CPUs in September, with a possible release in October. The company previously announced that Raptor Lake should, among other things, provide better performance and get more E-cores compared to the current Alder Lake generation. The processors are also expected to get more L2 and L3 cache. The CPUs use socket LGA-1700, just like Alder Lake.