The Core i5 13600K looks mighty in this early leak

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As the launch of Intel's 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs draws closer, the leaks are getting… leakier. The high-end Core i9 13900K(opens in new tab) earns attention as you'd expect, but the real star of the show may end up being the Core i5 13600K. A new leak suggests the 13600K is shaping up to be mighty.

China-based user Enthusiastic Citizen(opens in new tab) (via Nordic Hardware(opens in new tab)) got hold of an ES3 13600K, which is a third revision engineering sample, and probably the last before Qualification Samples and final silicon. The chip is made up of six performance cores and eight efficiency cores, giving it a total of 20 threads.

The ES3 chip has turbo clocks of 5.1/4.9GHz with the E cores at 3.9GHz. Enthusiastic Citizen slightly overclocked the ES3 in order to match the expected 5.1GHz all core turbo clock of the final 13600K, while also setting the E cores at 4.0GHz.

The CPU-Z benchmark screenshot shared below shows the 13600K destroying the 5950X in single-core performance, scoring 830 to 648. In the multithreaded test the higher core count of the 5950X keeps it in front by almost 20%, but that's not as much as you'd expect given its 32-thread to 20-thread advantage. For a further comparison my 12600K scores are around 760/7000. In CPUZ at least, the 13600K is very strong.

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Enthusiastic Citizen tested the 13600K in Cinebench R23 where it scored 1387 in the single-core test and 24420 in the multithreaded test. A 12600K score is around 1880 and 17100. The