Those of you who read us daily already know that the Intel Core i9-13900K is destined to become, if all goes according to plan, another top-of-the-line processor chip giant. This is not the first time we have talked about this CPU, we already told you that it will be manufactured in intel node 7 (10nm with higher transistor density than 7nm TSMC node) and we also told you that it will be configured with 24 cores and 32 fibers.

This increase in cores and fibers will be made possible by a noticeable increase in high-efficiency cores, as high-performance cores will remain at the same level as we saw in Alder Lake-S. What does it mean? Well, very simple that the Intel Core i9-13900K will be configured 8 high-performance coresbased on the Raptor Cove architecture, and 16 highly efficient coresbased on the Gracemont architecture.

HyperThreading only affects high-performance cores, which explains why the Intel Core i9-13900K will be able to work with a total of 32 threads. In total, this new chip will have 68 MB cache, which is a huge amount that allows us to anticipate significant performance improvements, although changes in the microarchitecture level compared to Alder Lake-S will eventually be small. So far, nothing is certain, but recent leaks have indicated that the IPC improvement could be between 10% and 20%.

Intel Core i9-13900K: Multiple cores and speeds up to 5.8 GHz

According to the new reputation, this would be the maximum speed that the Intel Core i9-13900K would reach. It is not specified under what conditions, but by simple logic I think we would talk about the maximum value that a given processor could reach work with the active core, ie in a single thread, because at this type of load, Intel processors can reach the maximum peak in turbo mode.

Although this may lower expectations a bit, we must keep in mind that the Intel Core i9-13900K turbo mode will scale on the basis of active kernelsas is already the case with the Intel Core i9-12900K, which means that in games where the degree of parallelization is usually relatively low and more than eight threads rarely saturate, it could be able to maintain relatively high frequencies and you should have no problem stay above 5 GHz at high multithreaded loads.

If all the leaks we’ve seen so far are true, the Intel Core i9-13900K I would have everything to complicate AMD. Sunnyvale will respond to the launch of Raptor Lake-S Zen 4generation of high-performance CPUs that will retain the modular design we saw in Zen 3, even if it makes the 5nm node jump and promises a substantial increase in IPC, as well as an increase in frequencies that will allow AMD to finally exceed the 5 GHz limit. What can i say bless the competition!