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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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  • flyingpants265 - Thursday, October 20, 2022 - link

    That doesn't matter. All that proves is TDP is a phony measurement. If the CPU draws up to 300 watts, then it's a 300 watt CPU. Reply

  • yh125d - Friday, October 21, 2022 - link

    Exactly Reply

  • Iketh - Friday, October 21, 2022 - link

    proving TDP is a phony measurement is the entire point of that post Reply

  • Yojimbo - Friday, October 21, 2022 - link

    Firstly this discussion is not confined to Intel. All the modern CPUs use turbo clocks. They all have various performance characteristics dependent on the thermal design of the product they are in.

    Please cite where Intel writes that. Intel only uses TDP in its technical literature these days for the very reason that consumers are confused about it. Intel uses PL1 and PL2. TDP is the MINIMUM power that one should be designing for, not the maximum. The amount of turbo clock exposed by the cooling solution is optional, but the thermal solution associated with the processor must be capable of handling the TDP. The processor will not be damaged with a cooling solution that only handles the TDP. The processor will not use its turbo clocks much and will stay at or below the TDP power except for short periods of time. On the other hand if a cooling solution cannot handle the TDP there could he bad consequences.

    Again. This isn't an Intel-specific thing. TDP and turbo clocks are ubiquitous in the industry. What is also very widespread is massive misunderstanding and misinformation about the term. Perhaps Anandtech should stop using the term with respect to CPUs because it seems to me that it's a minority of readers who understand it.     Reply

  • Meteor2 - Saturday, October 22, 2022 - link

    Reviews should stop quoting TDP. Intel no longer uses it; their latest product spec pages e.g. for the i9-13900K quote Maximum Turbo Power: "The maximum sustained (>1s) power dissipation of the processor as limited by current and/or temperature controls. Instantaneous power may exceed Maximum Turbo Power for short durations (<=10ms). Note: Maximum Turbo Power is configurable by system vendor and can be system specific."

    Which for the i9-13100K is 253W.     Reply

  • Meteor2 - Saturday, October 22, 2022 - link

    AMD still quotes TDP (e.g. 170W for the 7950X) with no definition of TDP provided, which I would suggest IS misleading. Reply

  • at_clucks - Monday, October 24, 2022 - link

    Ah, not confined to Intel, solid argument that it's not a problem to do it but that "people are uneducated". Scale matters. When your real power consumption is 120% over the advertised one (see link below) this isn't an "everybody's doing it" but it is indeed a matter of "people are uneducated". At this time Jimbo, anyone trying to find excuses for Intel, and downplaying the shenanigans is _really_ uneducated, was born yesterday, or benefits from the lie.

    This doesn't mean you should stop using Intel if it does the job for you,. But only a fool or the fraudster would defend or downplay what they're doing.

    https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph17585/130...     Reply

  • catavalon21 - Sunday, November 20, 2022 - link

    "Please cite where Intel writes that."

    Step right up, folks...

    https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/ar...     Reply

  • Truebilly - Friday, October 21, 2022 - link

    🫳🎤 Reply

  • HarryVoyager - Friday, October 21, 2022 - link

    Doesn't especially matter whether they are conforming to the technical definition or not as it is tells me nothing useful about the CPU in the context in which it is presented. Reply
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