Hot of the heels of AMD's Zen 4 series launch, here comes Intel with their highly anticipated 13th-gen Core series, codenamed Raptor Lake. Today we're reviewing the top-of-the-line Core i9-13900K.
Hot of the heels of AMD's Zen 4 series launch, here comes Intel with their highly anticipated 13th-gen Core series, codenamed Raptor Lake. Today we're reviewing the top-of-the-line Core i9-13900K.
Not sure how you got that conclusion when the 5800x3d existsThank you techspot for the work & reviews....
Seems like the moral of the story is, that the Ryzen 7700x is the chip to get if you are a Gamer and don't care about productivity.
Buying anything Intel right now makes zero sense, because it's all EOL as a new socket is coming in just 8 months.
Not sure how you got that conclusion when the 5800x3d exists
I was hoping a more refined design from intel this round. Seeing a CPU suffering from throttling in 2022 is disappointing. TJ Max in 20 seconds, really intel? This chip performs barely better than the 12900k and trades blow with AMD's 7700x in games which is a cheaper CPU. I hope at least 12700 and 12600 perform good and don't suffer from this throttling issue.
It's worth noting that the other sites are using different motherboards to us:Interresting that only you and techpowerup seem to disagree with every other review out there about the cbr23 numbers. Computerbase / guru3d / club386 / igorslab has the 13900k at 38k-39k at stock 253w. Weird...
Yeah but most of them seem to agree, except you and techpowerup. And we are not talking margin of error here, the difference is huge. The 13900k @ your 125w limit is slower than a 12900k @ 125w in CBR23. That just doesn't make senseIt's worth noting that the other sites are using different motherboards to us:
Computerbase - Asus ROG Maximus Hero
Guru3D - ASUS ROG Maxiumus Extreme
club386 - Asus ROG Maximus Hero
igorsLAB - MSI MEG Z690 Ace
TechPowerUp - Asus ROG Maximus Hero
TechSpot - Gigabyte Aorus Master
Plus different coolers, different RAM, different graphics cards. Even a CPU-focused benchmark like Cinebench, little things can easily add up.
That means, when factoring the entire system load, the 13900K consumed almost 40% more power than the 7950X, which isn't great given it was also slower (around 12% slower in this test). So while the 12900K was pretty ugly when it came to power use, the 13900K is downright hideous.
The 12900K was alreadya bitridiculous in our opinion, so we guess that makes the 13900K completely beyond absurd.
But wait, there's still hope. The Core i7-13700K and Core i5-13600K might make far more sense and we'll be checking out those parts over the next few days.
the 13900K remained dominant thanks to the power of the RTX 4090