Given the absence of just over two months of what will most likely be Raptor Lake, the thirteenth generation of Intel Core. A little over two months, during which almost certainly we’ll see how new performance tests come out test units, which will help us get a fairly concrete idea of ​​what the new generation will bring us. A generation about which we are already learning many details that point to a significant leap in performance.

And today we know about new performance tests, in this case the future top of the line, the Intel Core i9-13900K, the processor we know so far whate will have 24 cores (eight performance and 16 efficiency) for a total of 32 threads, 36 megabytes of L3 cache and 32 megabytes of L2 cache for a total of 68 megabytes and that its performance cores will start at 3 gigahertz and be able to scale up to 5 . 7 or 5.8 according to various sources.

These new performance tests were published by Extreme Player in Bilibili, in which we can see the results both synthetic tests and some gamesand as their weighted result, we can conclude a 5% performance increase between the Core i9-13900K and its predecessor, the Core i9-12900K. The improvement, however, was calculated with power cores giving a maximum of 5.5 gigahertz, so we can understand that the final improvement will be even greater.

As a synthetic test, 3DMark was chosen, in which we can see some minimal differences, but also others that are much more obvious, as you can see in this table:

And when it comes to games, the selection consists of Horizon-Zero Down, Red Dead Redemption 2, Far Cry 6, Forza Horizon 5, Monster Hunter: Rise, PUBG, Final Fantasy IX and CS:GO. You can see their results combined with 3DMark results in this table:

An interesting comparison is that they offer consumption data, in which we see that the Intel Core i9-13900K can consume up to 52% more in games than the Core i9-12900K and an average of 20% higher power consumption in all three tested resolutions. This means that the next generation Raptor Lake CPU series will consume more power than Alder Lake.

The average FPS breakdown at each resolution is as follows:

• Intel Core i9-13900K vs. Core i9-12900K at 1080p: 4.22% faster performance on average.
• Intel Core i9-13900K vs. Core i9-12900K at 1440p: 6.97% faster performance on average.
• Intel Core i9-13900K vs. Core i9-12900K at 2160p: 3.30% faster performance on average.

In terms of minimum FPS, the breakdown at each resolution is as follows:

• Intel Core i9-13900K vs. Core i9-12900K at 1080p: 27.93% faster minimum FPS.
• Intel Core i9-13900K vs. Core i9-12900K at 1440p: 21.83% faster minimum FPS.
• Intel Core i9-13900K vs. Core i9-12900K at 2160p: 12.82% faster minimum FPS.

And finally we have the maximum FPS breakdown for each resolution:

• Intel Core i9-13900K vs. Core i9-12900K at 1080p : 6.29% faster maximum FPS.
• Intel Core i9-13900K vs. Core i9-12900K at 1440p: 4.42% faster maximum FPS.
• Intel Core i9-13900K vs. Core i9-12900K at 2160p: 2.58% faster maximum FPS.

So, as we can see, and we remember again that we are talking about a maximum performance of 5.5 gigahertz, which will probably grow to 5.7 or 5.8, we are facing a rather significant jump, which may increase even more in the final version. processor.