Raptor Lake beats Ryzen 7000 on all fronts
Intel looks to be the brand to pick when choosing your next CPU. 13th gen Raptor Lake processors are winning in the always-so-wanky benchmarks war against Ryzen 7000.
AMD’s Ryzen 7000 series CPUs came out last month to much fanfare. 15% faster average performance compared to Ryzen 5000, a new 5nm process, beefier cache and higher clock speeds. The 7900x boosts up to an impressive 5.7Ghz.
However, the Intel of 2022 is no longer the ailing wretch it had become pre-pandemic. For the second year in a row, team blue has come out on top in terms of raw performance and value for money.
In head-to-head comparisons, Intel’s 13th gen CPUs are averaging 10-13% better numbers than their Ryzen 7000 equivalents. Driven by a big bump in core/thread count and boost clock from their top-of-the-range chip – 24 cores/32 threads and up to 5.8Ghz in the form of the 13900K.
Kale-eaters hoping for better power efficiency to help save the planet are out of luck here. With great power comes great power consumption, as Batman once said. Intel’s range toppers have flat-lined at 105 watts, but on the AMD side, we’ve got a whopping 38% increase in TDP from 105 watts to 170 watts!
As a result, the top-end 7000 chips are running so hot (north of 95 degrees) that gamers could worry about them melting their precious rigs. AMD claims it’s just a new normal, and we hope they’re right.
The sweet spot right now is the 13600K, which offers excellent value at £340 (just £20 more than the hastily discounted 7600x) while crushing the benchmarks in both gaming and productivity tasks. It averages 5% faster than the last-gen flagship 12900K, and 10% faster than the aforementioned AMD chip.
If you are determined to stick with AMD though, you are going to have to spend
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