Core i7-13700K and i5-13600K in the preliminary test: high performance with high power consumption

Benchmarks Core i7-13700K vs 12700K


from Maximilian Hohm
Raptor Lake is scheduled to replace Alder Lake as Intel’s mainstream processors this fall and offer a decent performance boost. The Chinese tester “ExtremePlayer” has now tried this out and carried out the first benchmarks for the new processors, in which they placed well ahead of their predecessors in some cases. Read more about this below.

Intel’s Raptor Lake is said to succeed Alder Lake on Socket 1700 and, in addition to faster DDR5 memory, generate higher performance through detailed optimizations, higher boost rates and more E-Cores. So far it looks as if the SKUs, which are also available at Alder Lake, will receive direct successors and the spearhead will again be represented by the Core i9-13900K. Among them are the Core i7-13700K and the Core i5-13600K, which were tested by the Chinese hardware tester “ExtremePlayer” on Bilibili in the first benchmarks.

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Benchmarks Core i7-13700K vs 12700K

Source: ExtremePlayer via Bilibili




A major innovation compared to Alder Lake are the Gracemont E-Cores, eight of which are also installed in the two smaller chips. The boost clock increases by 400 MHz to up to 5.4 GHz in the Core i7 and by 300 MHz to a maximum of 5.2 GHz in the Core i5. There is also a doubled L2 cache and support for DDR5-5,600. ExtremePlayer tested the processors on two Asrock Z690 Steel Legend with DDR5-6,400 and DDR4-3,200.

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In the integrated benchmark of CPU-Z, the i7-13700K increases the single-core performance by 10 percent compared to its predecessor, while it is a respectable 32-34 percent in the multi-core. The i5-13600K is only slightly faster in the single-core with five percent than the i5-12600K, but in the multi-core it increases between 39 and 41 percent. These enormous multi-core performance gains at much lower single-core performance gains are a result of increased power consumption. In the AIDA64 FPU test, the 13700K consumed 244 watts, almost 60 watts more than a 12700K, while the 13600K consumed 178 watts, still 30 watts more than a 12600K.

Source: bilibili & Videocardz

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