Here we have another filtered analysis of the Intel Core i9-13900K, the high-end processor that Intel will launch in October this year and which we already know in detail thanks to the numerous leaks that have been produced in recent months. . this will be the flagship Intel Raptor Lake-S series chipit will use a monolithic core design based on the hybrid model we saw in Alder Lake-S and adopt a new architecture in its high-performance cores.

At the specification level, the Intel Core i9-13900K will have eight high-performance cores based on raptor cove architecturewhich will run at 3 GHz in normal mode and 5.8 GHz in turbo mode (5.5 GHz with all cores active), 16 highly efficient cores based on the Gracemont architecture, which will be able to reach 4.3 GHz in turbo mode, it will have 32 MB of L2 cache and 36 MB of L3 cache, which leaves us with a total of 68 MB of cache, and its TDP will be 125 watts. (PL1). It will be produced on an Intel 7 (10nm) node.

In the attached image, extracted from the filtered analysis, we can see a comparison with the specifications of Intel Core i9-12900K and Intel Core i9-13900K. The differences are very clear, the latter uses a new architecture in high-performance cores, achieves higher frequencies and has a larger amount of buffer memory, both L2 and L3. All this should allow it to offer clearly better performance, and as we will see in the performance tests that the filtered analysis collects, this is the case, albeit with nuances.

The Intel Core i9-13900K used in this review appears to be an engineering unit that still exists I wasn’t quite matureas he cannot win by force on the Core i9-12900K in all tests. The best example is specialized gaming tests, where the Alder Lake-S chip managed to significantly outperform it in many titles, including the popular Cyberpunk 2077.

Thanks to high-performance Intel Core i9-13900K cores running at a frequency of 5.5 GHz improve your results considerably, although we still find some values ​​that do not quite correspond to what we expected from this new CPU. The truth is that the results are strange, but as I said before, everything seems to be due to the lack of maturity of the unit used, which would be early technical sample with some problems maintain working frequencies in a permanent manner.

This seems to be confirmed when we see the results that this Intel Core i9-13900K technical sample achieves in Cinebench R23 and CPU-Z. In the first he reaches 1,931 points in single thread and 35,572 points in multiple threads, so that it loses to the Intel Core i9-12900K in single thread (2003 points) and surpasses it in multithreading (27343 points). In CPU-Z, the Intel Core i9-13900K scores 800.1 points and in multi-threaded processing it is 14,894.3 points, while the Intel Core i9-12900K scores 827.4 and 11,455.4 points, also in single-threaded and multi-threaded, respectively .

In terms of consumption and temperatures, we see that in AIDA4 the Intel Core i9-13900K maintains high-performance cores at 4.9 GHz, which translates into consumption of 178.5 watts and a maximum temperature of 62 degreeswhile the Intel Core i9-13900K hovered at 281.3 watts and reached temperatures between 84 and 100 degrees C. Overclocked, the Intel Core i9-13900K reaches 5.2 GHz and reaches 76 degrees, very good temperature, no doubt. Both processors were tested with a 360mm AIO liquid cooling kit.

We end with Prime95, which is quite a tough test. The Intel Core i9-13900K was able to run stably overclocked to 5.2 GHz and recorded maximum consumption and temperatures of 378 watts and 92 degrees. In general, the results are good.always bearing in mind that this is an early technical sample and therefore has some problems at the level of sustained frequencies.