Intel Core i9-13900K: Significantly faster than 12900KF with at least FPS

With a pre-production version of the Intel Core i9-13900K, the test machine extreme players From China, he conducted several benchmarks and compared them with the results of the Intel Core i9-12900KF. The games showed only a small difference in the average FPS, but a very big difference in the minimum FPS.

Screenshots and graphics come from a video posted on the Bilibili platform. The tests are based on an engineering sample of the Intel Raptor Lake CPU generation, which contains the main data expected of a Core i9-13900K with 8 performance cores, 16 efficiency cores and a turbo capacity of up to 5.5GHz. Twitter user hahahahahaha Take the trouble to average out the many gaming benchmarks.

Significantly higher than FPS with Lake Raptor

It becomes clear that the system with Raptor Lake is only faster than the Alder Lake computer in the maximum and average FPS in the single-digit percentage range. On the other hand, there are much larger differences in the minimum frames per second, depending on how hard the GPU is, in this case the slowdown of the powerful GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.

In Full HD (1920×1080), the “Core i9-13900K” offers about 28 percent. As the GPU load increases with higher resolutions, the add-on is reduced to about 22 percent with WQHD (2560 x 1440) and just under 12 percent with 4K UHD (3840 x 2160).

With an average FPS, the increase is only between 3 and 7 percent, looking similar to the maximum frames per second with 3 to 6 percent.

The benchmark overview from the video also shows that, for example, in Read Dead Redemption 2, there were extreme max values ​​with a roughly 80 percent higher rate of fire in Rocket Lake. The sample performed particularly well on the 3DMark CPU and physics tests. Given the outliers and the pre-series condition, the results are more likely to be classified as trend. It remains to be seen how well the ultimate Core i9-13900K performs in games and applications.

Energy consumption also increases

The fact that the extra performance won’t be freely available is shown elsewhere: the maximum power consumption measured in gaming tests is usually much higher on Raptor Lake than its predecessor.

It’s hardly faster at the same rate

The Chinese laboratory has also published the application standards. In single-core tests, the Raptor Lake chip typically led by about 10 percent, and in multi-core applications the lead grew to over 40 percent in some cases. This is largely in line with expectations as well as observations in the benchmarks with an engineering sample of the Core i5-13600K.

The additional per-thread performance with Raptor Lake is likely well above the maximum clock, which in this case (5.5 GHz vs. 5.2 GHz) is about 6 percent higher. The big multi-threaded plus is the extra cores (24 total vs 16).