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Intel Core i9-13900K and i5-13600K Review: Raptor Lake Brings More Bite

 by Gavin Bonshor on October 20, 2022 9:00 AM EST
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Gaming Performance: 1080p

Moving along, here's a look at a more balanced gaming scenario, running games at 1080p with maximum image quality.

Civilization VI

 

(a-7) Civilization VI - 1080p Max - Average FPS(a-8) Civilization VI - 1080p Max - 95th Percentile

World of Tanks

(b-3) World of Tanks - 1080p Standard - Average FPS(b-4) World of Tanks - 1080p Standard - 95th Percentile(b-5) World of Tanks - 1080p Max - Average FPS(b-6) World of Tanks - 1080p Max - 95th Percentile

Borderlands 3

(c-7) Borderlands 3 - 1080p Max - Average FPS(c-8) Borderlands 3 - 1080p Max - 95th Percentile

Grand Theft Auto V

(e-7) Grand Theft Auto V - 1080p Max - Average FPS(e-8) Grand Theft Auto V - 1080p Max - 95th Percentile

Red Dead Redemption 2

(f-7) Red Dead 2 - 1080p Max - Average FPS(f-8) Red Dead 2 - 1080p Max - 95th Percentile

F1 2022

(g-3) F1 2022 - 1080p Ultra High - Average FPS(g-4) F1 2022 - 1080p Ultra High - 95th Percentile

Hitman 3

(h-3) Hitman 3 - 1080p Ultra - Average FPS(h-4) Hitman 3 - 1080p Ultra - 95th Percentile

Total War: Warhammer 3

(i-2) Total War Warhammer 3 - 1080p Ultra - Average FPS

Cyberpunk 2077

(k-3) Cyberpunk 2077 - 1080p Ultra - Average FPS(k-4) Cyberpunk 2077 - 1080p Ultra - 95th Percentile

The 1920 x 1080p resolution is still popular with users (even I still game at 1080p), and looking at our results with our AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT graphics card, the 13th Gen Core series processors are highly competitive. In some cases, AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D with 96 MB of 3D V-Cache makes for a great value in gaming, even if it's not really on par with Ryzen 7000 or Intel's 13th Gen in compute performance.

There are certainly trade-offs depending on the title on whether the game favors AMD or Intel, but the key thing to take is, things are competitive, especially at 1080p gaming.

Gaming Performance: 720p And Lower Gaming Performance: 1440p
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  • Pjotr - Thursday, October 20, 2022 - link

    Closing thoughts typos: Ryzen 580X3D and Ryzen 700. Reply

  • Ryan Smith - Thursday, October 20, 2022 - link

    Thanks! Reply

  • mode_13h - Thursday, October 20, 2022 - link

    Thanks for the review!

    Could you please add the aggregates, in the SPEC 2017 scores? There's usually a summary chart that has an average of the individual benchmarks, and then it often has the equivalent scores from more CPUs/configurations than the individual test graphs contain. For example, see the Alder Lake review:

    https://www.anandtech.com/show/17047/the-intel-12t...     Reply

  • Arbie - Thursday, October 20, 2022 - link

    TechSpot / Hardware Unboxed show that to complete a Blender job the 13900K takes 50% more total system energy than does the 7950X. Intel completing a Cinebench job takes 70% more energy. Meaning heat in the room. And that's with the Intel chip thermal throttling instantly on even the best cooling.

    Looking at AT's "Power" charts here, which list the Intel chip as "125W" and AMD as "170W", many readers will get EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE impression.

    Sure, you mention the difficulties in comparing TDPs etc, and compare this gen Intel to last gen etc but none of that "un-obscures" the totally erroneous Intel vs AMD picture you've conveyed.

    ESPECIALLY when your conclusion says they're "very close in performance" !! BAD JOB, AT. The worst I've seen here in a very long time. Incomprehensibly bad.     Reply

  • gezafisch - Thursday, October 20, 2022 - link

    Cope harder - watch Der8auer's video showing that the 13900k can beat any chip at efficiency with the right settings - https://youtu.be/H4Bm0Wr6OEQ Reply

  • Ryan Smith - Thursday, October 20, 2022 - link

    We go into the subject of power consumption at multiple points and with multiple graphs, including outlining the 13900K's high peak power consumption in the conclusion.

    https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph17601/130...

    Otherwise, the only place you see 125W and 170W are in the specification tables. And those values are the official specifications for those chips.     Reply

  • boeush - Thursday, October 20, 2022 - link

    Not true. You have those insanely misleading "TDP" labels on every CPU in the legend of every performance comparison chart. This paints a very misleading picture of "competitive" performance, whereas performance at iso-power (e.g. normalized per watt, based on total system power consumption measured at the outlet) would be much more enlightening. Reply

  • boeush - Thursday, October 20, 2022 - link

    *per watt-hour (not per watt)

    [summed over the duration of the benchmark run]     Reply

  • dgingeri - Thursday, October 20, 2022 - link

    Is it just me, or does the L1 cache arrangement seem a bit odd? 48k data and 32k instruction for the P cores and 32k data and 64k instruction on the e-cores. Seems a bit odd to me. Reply

  • Otritus - Thursday, October 20, 2022 - link

    Golden/Raptor Cove has a micro-op cache for instructions. 4096 micro-ops is about equal to 16Kb of instruction cache, which is effectively 48Kb-D + 48Kb-I. I don’t remember whether Gracemont has a micro-op cache. However, it doesn’t have hyperthreading, so maybe it just needs less data cache per core. Reply
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