Intel Raptor Lake: Core i9-13900K behind AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X in the Blender benchmark

While the first two Intel CPUs from the new “Raptor Lake” generation recently arrived at the PCGH editorial office and it will take a while after unboxing before the extensive test, the benchmark database of the 3D graphics suite Blender shows first performance -Results surfacedwhich indicate the competitiveness of the new processors.

Limited to the two new model generations from AMD and Intel, AMD’s current 16-core top model Ryzen 9 7950X is at the top with a result of 607.53 points. Below that is the Intel counterpart in the form of the 24-core CPU Core i9-13900K with 557.66 points. It is followed by the Ryzen 9 7900X with 462.39 points, Core i7-13700K with 429.7 points, Core i5-13600K with 358.18 points, Ryzen 7 7700X with 305.51 points and Ryzen 5 5600X with 234.65 points.

Intel vs AMD: Mixed results

The Ryzen 9 7950X is therefore 9 percent faster than the Core i9-13900K (at least in the benchmark here), and the Ryzen 9 7900X delivers 7.6 percent more performance than the Core i7-13700K. Meanwhile, Intel dominates in the middle class: The i5-13600K beats the Ryzen 7 7700X and the Ryzen 5 7600X quite clearly, by 17 and 51 percent respectively.

It should be noted that the Core i7-13700K results used an older version of Blender, namely version 3.2.1 instead of version 3.3, which all other CPUs mentioned used. a report However, according to Phoronix.com, version 3.2.1 is slower than version 3.3, which means that the Core i7-13700K in version 3.3 would probably be even slightly faster.

Meanwhile notice Tomshardware.com Referring to Twitter user HXL’s discovery of the results, these numbers alone show that Intel has recaptured much of the multi-core performance it lost to AMD in 2017 with the launch of the first Ryzen model line would have. Everything else has to be clarified in the upcoming test across various application areas, as well as the expected price structure after the market launch on October 20th.