Core i7-13700K and i5-13600K: Raptor Lake defeats Alder Lake in the gaming test

In a few months, Intel’s new Raptor Lake processors of the 13th Core i generation will be presented or come onto the market. September and October are mentioned as months, with the first K models later this year. Samples from pre-production are diligently tested in advance, such as from “ExtremePlayer” from China. A few days ago, he made some benchmarks for the smaller models Core i7-13700K and Core i5-13600K. Now the tester followed up with new data on gaming operations.

Raptor Lake makes Alder Lake look old in games

Compared to their predecessors of the Alder Lake generation, the Raptor Lake CPUs come with more cores, including new Gracemont E cores, higher clock speeds and, consequently, higher power consumption. The Core i7-13700K is said to have 16 cores (8 of which are P and E cores) and 24 threads. The CPU has a maximum turbo clock of 5.2 GHz and a PL2 TDP of around 244 W. The Alder Lake counterpart has four fewer cores, clocks at 5 GHz and consumes around 50 W less power. The Core i5-13600K also offers 4 more cores than its predecessor i5-12600K, 300 MHz more clock speed (5.2 GHz turbo clock) and a 30 W higher PL2 level (~180 W).

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In its gaming test, ExtremePlayer set itself the task of comparing the two processor generations. For this he used an Asrock Z690 Steel Legend mainboard in two different RAM versions, one with DDR5-6400 and one with DDR4-3600. A Geforce RTX 3090 Ti Gaming X Trio from MSI was used as the graphics card. ExtremePlayer’s result graphs themselves are very detailed, which is why Twitter users “Harukaze5719” created his own charts based on this data, showing that the Raptor Lake processors perform better than their Alder Lake predecessors at all resolutions (4K, QHD, FHD).

The average Full HD frame rate has increased by seven to twelve percent across all test constellations. At the minimum frame rates, the increase is already 11 to 14 percent for Full HD. At 4K and QHD, the Raptor Lake CPUs were also able to outperform Alder Lake, but not by 14 percent. For more data from ExtremePlayer’s gaming test using the Raptor Lake samples, watch the video on the BiliBili platform see.

Source: ExtremePlayer via Videocardz