Intel Raptor Lake: Detailed benchmarks for Engineering Sample leaked

In the second half of 2022, Intel’s new Core i-13000 processors, codenamed Raptor Lake, will come onto the market and replace the existing Alder Lake CPUs. Several changes are currently expected in the rumor mill. According to the current state of knowledge, Raptor Lake should offer, in addition to a revised P-core architecture, eight additional E-cores, a slightly improved manufacturing process and generally larger caches.

How fast is Raptor Lake?

It remains to be seen to what extent these revisions will result in increased efficiency and performance. A first foretaste of the performance is already available from the EXP Review website, which is said to have been able to get hold of an engineering sample from Raptor Lake and test it on an Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Extreme.

The tested engineering sample has the full configuration of Raptor Lake, i.e. eight P and 16 E cores. It is not known which model it is supposed to be, since the product name cannot yet be read by CPU-Z. It shouldn’t be a final product anyway, because the clock is too low for that.

CPU comparison. Left: Raptor Lake (engineering sample). Right: Intel Core i9 12900K

Source: EXP Review

Specifications in comparison. Left: Raptor Lake (engineering sample). Right: Intel Core i9 12900K

Source: EXP Review

The P cores of the tested sample were apparently able to boost up to a maximum of 3.8 GHz. The clock of the E cores was also low – one cluster ran at a maximum of 1.0 GHz, the other at a maximum of 2.0 GHz. For comparison, the Core i9-12900K’s P-cores run at 5.1 GHz, and the E-cores at 2.4 GHz. Until the release, the clock rates should therefore change a lot.

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Nevertheless, the engineering sample from Raptor Lake overtakes Alder Lake in some disciplines. In Cinebench R23, the Raptor Lake sample is said to be only around ten percent slower than the Core i9-12900K with 514 points, despite the 25 percent lower clock. In the multi-core benchmark, on the other hand, the performance is 25 percent higher with 10,203 points.

The usual benchmarks show a similar picture. Despite the lower clock rate, Raptor Lake can usually set itself apart by around 20 percent in the multi-core score. On the other hand, there is often a tie in games (1080p), whereby the Core i9-12900K was usually slightly ahead. Hopefully, as with the single-core results, the higher clock of the final products will help by the time of release so that Raptor Lake can leave Alder Lake behind.

Source: via Videocardz