Intel i9-13900K CPU leaked benchmark previews broad performance gains
Multiple engineering sample benchmarks for Intel’s upcoming CPU generation are now out in the wild. The topic of today’s story relates to a user that claims to have reviewed the Intel i9-13900K CPU performance in multiple apps.
The alleged review by ExtremePlayer shows clear generational performance gains directly in line with expectations for the top 13th gen Raptor Lake CPU. In short, the 13900K is about 10% faster in single core and 22-46% faster in multi-core testing than the Alder Lake i9-12900K, depending on the test.
A few things that stand out are the higher E-Core counts, higher peak boost frequencies, and increased power consumption. The 13900K will use eight P-Cores and 16 E-Cores. That’s double the E-Cores of the 12900K. Single core boost frequencies up to 5.7 GHz were also achieved. The engineering sample also briefly exceeded 400W in one measurement. All of this was done on a system equipped with 6400 DDR5, a Z690 ROG Extreme motherboard, an Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti, and a 360mm CPU liquid cooler.
It’s hard to say exactly without testing the CPU ourselves in games. Synthetic benchmarks are useful ways of determining relative performance, but they don’t always translate to gaming purposes. Additionally, it’s important to remember this is just an engineering sample, so its characteristics aren’t necessarily representative of the final retail models.
Generally speaking, though, we can see that the Intel i9-13900K CPU should deliver decently better gaming performance for several reasons. It clocks higher, which will help older games. It also has more cache, which is another thing that boosts framerates. We can likely also expect higher all-core frequencies, which will help modern games that utilize multiple cores.
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