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13th Gen Intel Raptor Lake Arrives Just in Time to Hit AMD Back | Digital Trends Spanish


Intel today revealed its 13th generation Raptor Lake processors during its Innovation 2022 event, heating up the already heated battle between AMD and Intel. Although these new chips share a lot with the previous generation under the hood, Intel promises more cores, higher clock speeds, and performance that will catapult the 13th generation chips to the top of the best CPU rankings.

Before we dive in, here’s a quick look at the specs for the three upcoming Raptor Lake processors. Some specs are official, while others have been compiled from specs released by Intel a couple of weeks ago (though not confirmed).

Core i9-13900K Core i7-13700K Core i5-13600K
Cores/Threads 24 (8+16)/32 16(8+8)/24 14(6+8)/20
base clock speed 3 GHz (P core), 2.2 GHz (electronic core) 3.4 GHz (P core), 2.5 GHz (Electronic core) 3.5GHz (P core), 2.6GHZ (Electronic core)
Increase clock speed Up to 5.8GHz Up to 5.4GHz Up to 5.1GHz
L2 cache 32MB 24MB 20MB
L3 cache 36MB 30MB 24MB
Max boost power 2436 2436 1916
Price $589 $409 $319

Perhaps the biggest change this generation is the doubling of E-cores in each of Intel’s recently announced processors. Like the previous generation, Raptor Lake uses a hybrid architecture that mixes performance cores (P) and efficient cores (E). Although the new chips do not come with more P cores, the additional E cores increase the overall count.

The flagship Core i9-13900K pushes up to 24 cores from 16 in the Core i9-12900K, the Core i7-13700K jumps from 12 cores to 16, and the Core i5-13600K goes from 10 cores to 14 cores. Although overall core counts have increased, it is important to note that e-cores do not support hyperthreading. AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X, for example, only has 16 cores, but it has the same 32 threads that are available for the Core i9-13900K.

However, cores aren’t the only trick Intel has up its sleeve. Clock speeds have also increased across the board, including a massive 600MHz increase for the Core i9-13900K. Though still below the 6GHz mark, Intel says the new chips come with similar overclocking headroom as the previous generation, and even showed off P cores that go past 8GHz with an LN2 extreme overclocking demo.

For overall performance, Intel says Raptor Lake chips provide 15% better single-threaded performance and 41% better multi-threaded performance. The company also claims a 24% increase in gaming, as well as a 34% increase in content creation workloads.

Raptor Lake gaming performance graph.
Intel

Compared to AMD’s Ryzen 9 5950X, Intel says the Core i9-13900K provides up to a 58% boost in gaming performance on Marvel’s Spider-Man. Other titles don’t see as much momentum, but the results are still promising. Intel touted a 31% increase in far cry 6, for example, and a 19% jump in Total War Warhammer 3.

Content creation workloads see a bigger jump, with a 69% increase in Auto Desk Revit over the Ryzen 9 5950X, as well as a 34% increase in PugetBench for After Effects. Generation after generation, Intel says that the Core i9-13900K is 27% faster in rendering in Adobe Media Encoder and Photoshop over the Core i9-12900K, and 34% faster in Blender and Unreal Engine.

Raptor Lake content creation performance.

While the gains are impressive, we’ll have to see how Intel’s latest chips hold up to AMD’s recently released Ryzen 9 7950X. Going into the next generation, it’s a battle between Intel Raptor Lake and AMD Ryzen 7000. Intel certainly has the specs to compete, with improved core counts and clock speeds, as well as additional cache to keep up with chips like the Ryzen 7 5800X3D.

One point in Intel’s favor is that the price remains the same as the previous generation, with the flagship coming in at $590. That’s $110 less than AMD’s current flagship, but we’ll have to wait a few weeks after that. launch dust settles to see where prices end up. Intel’s Raptor Lake processors, along with Z790 motherboards, will hit store shelves on October 20.

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