Intel Raptor Lake Core i9-13900 ES CPU benchmarks leak, 20% faster than Core i9-12900K in hyper-threading
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| Just a few hours after the Intel Core i9-13900 Raptor Lake CPU leak, a full performance preview has been posted by Expreview. |
Intel Core i9-13900K 'Raptor Lake' ES CPU 20% faster than Core i9-12900K 'Alder Lake' in multi-threaded benchmarks
The Intel Core i9-13900 'Raptor Lake' CPU has been tested and is an engineering sample like the one we saw earlier. It features an 8 + 16 core configuration. These include 8 P-Cores based on the Raptor Cove and 16 E-Cores based on the Gracemont core.
The Core i9-13900 Raptor Lake CPU carries 16MB of L2 cache for the P-Cores (2MB per core) and 16MB of L2 cache for the cores as well (4MB per group of 4 cores). This gives us a total of 32MB of L2 cache which combined with the L3 cache will give us a total of 68MB of cache which is rumored to be called "Game Cache".
Intel's Core i9-13900 Raptor Lake CPU is pictured on the left and the Alder Lake Core i9-12900K on the right. (Image credits: Bilibili)
In terms of clock speeds, the Intel Core i9-13900 Raptor Lake CPU has a clock speed of 3.8GHz. Note that the P-Cores for this engineering sample are running at the base clock of 1.4GHz and the maximum boost clock of 3.8GHz (P-Cores) while the E-Cores are split with 2 groups running at 2.8GHz and the other 2 groups running at 1.0GHz so we can actually Seeing some discrepancy in clock speeds. This is a Non-K 65W part so it will carry a much lower clock speed plus it is also an ES chip (engineering sample) so the clocks are expected to be lower. The final chips are expected to produce clock speeds of up to 6GHz.
Intel Core i9-13900 'Raptor Lake' and Core i9-12900K 'Alder Lake' CPUs tested on the Z690 platform with a pair of G.Skill DDR5-5200 memory and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card. No Raptor chip released Lake yet, so no proper BIOS is available for it yet. As such, clock speeds shouldn't be as constant as the final chip. For testing, the Expreview had a Core i9-12900K locked at 3.8GHz across all cores for a fair comparison.