We will have to wait for the arrival of Raptor Lake, the thirteenth generation of Intel Core, which, after the major changes that Alder Lake has introduced in relation to the Intel silicon architecture, will mean consolidating the hybrid architectureas well as new marks in terms of performance, both thanks to the addition of more cores, but also due to our own innovations.

The leaks that have occurred so far tell us that the top of the Raptor Lake range, the expected Intel Core i9-13900K, will add an incredible 24 cores, eight power and 16 efficiencies, providing no less than 32 threads. For them, the efficiency is expected to be similar, perhaps with some optimization, to Alder Lake, though Yes, a generational leap is expected in those performance, currently labeled Raptor Cove.

If you are one of the people waiting for the news about the thirteenth generation Intel Core, we have good news for you, that Expreview gained insight into the future peak of the Raptor Lake range, identified as Intel Core i9-13900 ES (early sample) and subjected it to a series of tests that tell us what to expect, although we must take this data with some reservations, because it is quite likely that the performance of the 13900K will be better at some point than the performance of this sample.

The first thing we will look at are the specifications of this processor, which we can see in the following file:

With this tab we can confirm that the top Raptor Lake will integrate the 24 above-mentioned cores (8/16) supplemented by a total of 36 MB of cache. Looking at the speed of the core, we see powerful cores running in the range of 1.4 GHz to 3.8 GHz, while one group of efficient cores runs at 1.0 GHz and the other at 2.0 GHz, which is a rather strange figure that again recalls that it is talking about a previous sample, not a definitive model.

But let’s get to the most important thing, namely the performance difference between the Intel Core i9-12900K and this sample of the future top of the Raptor Lake range, the i9-13900. And the most remarkable fact is found when verifying that in a single-wire performance, Alder Lake would beat Raptor Lake by 10%. And yes, I know I did it in the previous paragraph, but I have to remind you again that we are talking about the previous sample, so we can expect an improvement in this regard in the future 13900K. However, in multi-threaded performance, the 13900 ES is 25% faster in CINEBech 23:

In Expresview did not disappoint when it comes to testing the Core i9-13900 ES, the following are the test results:

Takže, jak vidíte, ve svém současném stavu (dobře, současném stavu, kdy byl tento čip vyroben), Raptor Lake by byl schopen nabídnout o 20 % vyšší výkon než Alder Lake, něco, co odpovídá nárůstu celkového počtu jader. Nicméně, a jak jsem již zmínil, je pravděpodobné, že konečné frekvence jader, zejména Raptor Cove, jsou vyšší, než jaké můžeme vidět v tomto vzorku.

S AMD, které již prokázalo, že je schopné nabídnout špičkový výkon schopný tvrdě konkurovat Intelu, je Raptor Lake klíčovou generací pro zkontrolujte, zda je Intel schopen znovu získat svou tradiční nadvládu Pokud jde o výkon, i když nám může být jasné, že AMD s Ryzenem 7000 jim to neulehčí. A to je soutěž, ve které vítězíme my, spotřebitelé. A v tomto ohledu nás s Raptor Lake, Ryzen 7000, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 a AMD Radeon RX 7000 čeká vzrušující podzim a zima.