![]() ![]() For worse, the Core i5-13600K and Core i9-13900K are a decent amount behind the Ryzen 9 7950X in Far Cry 6. Perhaps most surprising is that the two processors are a few frames behind last-gen’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D.You can add as many subtitle tracks as you’d like! In several languages That’s not always the case, though, for better and worse. Most games are limited by your GPU, so even at 1080p, the 13th-gen chips only show a difference of a few frames (and sometimes not even that) in Red Dead Redemption 2, Cyberpunk 2077, and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Although Intel is now back on top in some games, the margins are too small to matter in many cases. Intel has taken a backseat to AMD in gaming performance, and Raptor Lake isn’t changing that. At around the same price as the Ryzen 5 7600X, Intel’s i5 is offering solid performance advantages. The i9-13900K undercuts the Ryzen 9 7950X while offering very competitive performance, but the Core i5-13600K is the processor that takes the cake. If anything, Raptor Lake is a showcase that Intel is targeting value much more than AMD is now. With the integrated graphics on, the Core i9-13900K jumps up into the 1,500’s, far outpacing the Ryzen 9 7950X, while the Core i5-13600K settles around 1,200.Īlthough Raptor Lake doesn’t provide as large of a generational improvement that the Ryzen 7000 offered, it’s also coming off the coattails of a CPU generation released less than a year ago. I should note that these tests were run with the integrated GPU turned off on both the Intel and AMD chips. Again, though, the i5’s boosted core counts allow it to climb far ahead of the Ryzen 5 7600X. Premiere Pro is a different beast, and much tighter between AMD and Intel - at least at the high end. Intel says this is largely due to clock speed, which means overclocks can push the i5 further (given enough cooling). You can see how close the Ryzen 5 7600X and Ryzen 9 7950X are in single-core performance, while the Core i5-13600K takes a backseat to the single-core power of the Core i9-13900K. Raptor Lake is highly sensitive to frequency, too. Although the Ryzen 5 7600X takes a slight lead in single-core performance, the Core i5-13600K’s extra E-cores massively improve multi-threaded tasks. What really stands out is the Core i5-13600K. Overall, the Core i9-13900K takes a slight lead over AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X, but there’s no doubt the two chips are highly competitive. ![]() Handbrake also showed large gains, with the Core i9-13900K shaving 21% and Core i5-13600K cutting 19% off the encoding time. Image used with permission by copyright holder The binned Core i9-12900KS closes that gap a bit, but the 13th-gen chips are far ahead. In a rendering test like Cinebench, the Core i9-13900K showed a massive 47% jump in the multi-core test and a 14% jump in the single-core test, lending much more credibility to Intel’s performance claims. That doesn’t paint Raptor Lake in the best light, but Geekbench is only one benchmark. PCIe 5.0 may provide a bump in performance in the future for graphics cards, but even the best graphics cards can’t saturate PCIe 4.0 at the moment. But the RTX 3090 is still a ridiculously powerful GPU (and as you’ll see in my results, many games are still GPU limited at 1080p). Nvidia’s new RTX 4090 is here, which gives even more headroom for the processors to shine. Although Z790 supports features like PCIe 5.0 on the M.2 and PCIe slots, there shouldn’t be any performance difference between Z690 and Z790, at least on the CPU. I stuck with a Z690 motherboard for testing, as well. This bump can help accelerate some tasks, though the margins are generally small. I reused my Alder Lake test bench for Raptor Lake, minus some DDR5 with a bump in speed. Test configurations Jacob Roach / Digital Trends That also means Raptor Lake supports DDR4 and DDR5 memory, which certainly gives Intel a value edge over AMD’s Ryzen 7000 processors. If you’re using Raptor Lake with a 600-series chipset, though, make sure you have the latest BIOS before installing the processor. Intel is releasing a new Z790 chipset for Raptor Lake, but both 12th-gen and 13th-gen work across 600-series and 700-series chipsets. The new processors still use the LGA1700 socket, and they’re compatible with all 600-series motherboards. ![]() There are a lot of changes, but Raptor Lake is still mostly an Alder Lake refresh. Intel certainly has a value edge over Ryzen 7000 right now. ![]()
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