Monday, June 13th 2022
Intel Core i9-13900 "Raptor Lake" Processor Gets a Preview
Intel is preparing to launch its 13th generation of desktop processors codenamed Raptor Lake. Succeeding Alder Lake, the 13th gen design will implement up to eight P-cores with 16 E-cores manufactured on Intel's improved 7+ technology node. Today, we got a performance preview from SiSoftware that has collected SiSoftware Sandra database scores of Intel Core i9-13900 Raptor Lake-S processor. They present an overview of a few benchmarks. Firstly, the SoC features 36 MB of unified L3 cache versus 30 MB in Alder Lake. With DDR5 memory running up to 5600 MT/s and PCIe 5.0, the SoC features the latest IO and memory standards. The big P-cores now lack AVX-512 and feature 2 MB of L2 cache per core. We see 4 MB of L2 cache for a cluster of small E-cores. An exciting addition to E-cores is the AVX/AVX2 support, which is a first for Atom cores.
Regarding testing, the author has collected a few tests that seemed appropriate to compare to the equivalent Alder Lake model. Starting with ALU/FPU tests that benchmark basic arithmetic tasks, Raptor Lake delivered 33% to 50% improvement over Alder Lake. The Raptor Lake design achieved this with 3.7 GHz P-Core and 2.76 GHz E-Core frequency. In vectorized and SIMD tests, the 13th gen design showed only 5% to 8% improvement over the previous generation. For more benchmarks and accurate results, we have to wait for TechPowerUp's test, which will be coming on the release day.
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SiSoftware
Regarding testing, the author has collected a few tests that seemed appropriate to compare to the equivalent Alder Lake model. Starting with ALU/FPU tests that benchmark basic arithmetic tasks, Raptor Lake delivered 33% to 50% improvement over Alder Lake. The Raptor Lake design achieved this with 3.7 GHz P-Core and 2.76 GHz E-Core frequency. In vectorized and SIMD tests, the 13th gen design showed only 5% to 8% improvement over the previous generation. For more benchmarks and accurate results, we have to wait for TechPowerUp's test, which will be coming on the release day.
31 Comments on Intel Core i9-13900 "Raptor Lake" Processor Gets a Preview
Vs Zen 4 it will be quite even I predict, some wins some loses.
Cheap 6 core 13400 cpus will be awesome with great P/P ratio, not that 12400 or 5600 or even the 3600 are bad cpus, because they aren't.
Finally some progress after AMD and Intel sleeping through almost a decade!! Now bring this progress to the VGA market too!
Nice try :DThe same as Alder Lake, maybe. This is the same old broken 10nm intel process.
Also not really sure how you can complain about Intel 7. More or less the same efficiency as TSMC's 7nm.
7 nm process - Wikipedia
N6 is nothing but N7++.
Got a source?
Ryzen 9 5950X boosts up to 4.9 GHz.
We have seen an ES of Zen 4 running at 5.21 GHz.
Latest Zen 4 leaks: 8-core Ryzen 7000X CPU pops up on OpenBenchmarking, estimated performance gains over Zen 3 revealed by MLID - NotebookCheck.net News
Ryzen 7000 is on 5nm with the +25% ppw gains while Intel are stuck on Intel 7 with Raptor Lake. They'll be behind in efficiency again.
It's one advantage of Zen4 for those that use programs build around AVX512 instructions, so i guess it will benefit in a similar way as Intel's 11th gen Rocket Lake did, zero benefit for gaming, and even in commercial applications like Blender that use AVX512 in some tasks, the difference is small in most cases, you have to go very specific "scientific" apps to see big differences.
But nonetheless it's a welcomed advantage of course.