Intel Core i9-13900K

[W1zzard]

With the Core i9-13900K, Intel delivers impressive performance. Our in-depth review confirms: Raptor Lake is the world's fastest CPU for gaming. Even in applications the processor is able to match AMD's Zen 4 Ryzen 9 7950X flagship. If only power consumption wasn't so high...

Show full review

 

[thunderingroar]

Looking forward to future CPU testings with a 4090

 

[Crackong]

98 degree vs 95 degree
whoa

 

[Chaitanya]

Best to skip both these flagships this gen then.

 

[Asni]

The most uselful segment of the 12900k review was the test with e-cores disabled.

 

[Solid State Brain]

Other reviewers are seeing higher results in CB23 with power limits removed.

 

[usiname]

I just cant

 

[BorisDG]

This year/generation of CPUs is a FLOP. Go next!

 

[birdie]

TLDR: Meteor Lake couldn't come sooner.

AMD's classic approach on average works better (a lot more power efficient and in many tasks quite faster) than Intel's BIG.little foray.

To be honest both Zen 4 and RPL are meh. I hope it's not the sign of things to come and Zen 4+/5/Meteor Lake will dial back down on temperatures and power consumption. Things are getting out of hands really. First, ADL with ~250W power consumption, then Zen 4 with ~240W, then Lovelace with 450W, now RPL with ~280W.

Igor's Lab shows different power consumption figures though:

Now suddenly RPL is not so bad.

 

[swirl09]

Man this seems underwhelming. I mean, unless you do mixed workloads and make sure of the extra E cores.

I wasnt expecting much, but it still somehow comes up short. I have a conservative all core OC on the 12900k at low volts and it games like a champ.

 

[Athlon2K15]

Why are you testing on windows 11 21H2 when Intel specifically said that 22H2 has the new core scheduler for 13th Gen along with all the improvements to thread director and then complain in your pros cons that cores get put on wrong workloads. wtf.

 

[Space Lynx]

117 celsius on load? holy shit. i didn't even know that was possible.

 

[gridracedriver]

Terrifying, simply.

 

[LifeOnMars]

I can hand on heart say I am so glad that I am solely a gamer who plays at 4K and for once, made the right choices for me. I have an energy efficient CPU (5700x) which provides enough cores, speed and runs very cool. Slow ram(Just 3200 cl16), a budget motherboard (asrock b450) which previously ran a 3600 and only provides PCIE 3.0 and finally, a good quality 3080 12gb GPU (my biggest extravagance)

This system works beautifully, runs very cool, extremely quiet and is still running the latest game releases very well at good fidelity settings(Plague Tale/Uncharted) not to mention a huge backlog of older steam games to feast on.

I'm hoping, by the time I have to upgrade again, we'll be back to more refined parts but for now I'm more than happy with a near silent, cool running, 4k gaming experience at good framerates.

I don't envy those competitve gamers who feel the need to upgrade because they need to max out 500hz monitors else they can't aim or those enthusiasts who simply have to have the latest and greatest, these companies are mocking us.

 

[R0H1T]

Yes, all or most MT workloads (cbr23, blender , corona etc.). TDP numbers are not meaningless. If you put a PL2 on the bios, the mobo respects it. If mobo manafacturers do stupid stuff like power unlocking it on stock, that's their own problem.

So, will you continue to be the Intel apologist again

That's BS, because Intel can force any of these mobo makers to go bankrupt overnight! You think they're doing this without Intel's knowledge/approval

 

[kapone32]

399 Watt power draw seems very excessive. No wonder the VRMs on the Z790 boards are so robust.

 

[Solid State Brain]

117 celsius on load? holy shit. i didn't even know that was possible.

For some reason it appears that the temperature limit was increased for this review even though the default should be 100 °C.

 

[spnidel]

280w cpu, 500w+ gpu, let's gooo
yeah this generation of cpus from both AMD and Intel is ass, small performance uplifts, ridiculous power draw, all at a high entry cost
looking forward to see what cpus will have to offer in 2-3 generations when ddr5 will actually be worth it

 

[agatong55]

280w cpu, 500w+ gpu, let's gooo
yeah this generation of cpus from both AMD and Intel is ass, small performance uplifts, ridiculous power draw, all at a high entry cost
looking forward to see what cpus will have to offer in 2-3 generations when ddr5 will actually be worth it

but for someone like me who has a 1600x no matter what I choose it's a huge upgrade. It's not always about the people that want / can afford to upgrade every gen.

 

[R0H1T]

but for someone like me who has a 1600x no matter what I choose it's a huge upgrade. It's not always about the people that want / can afford to upgrade every gen.

Well if you go to 5700x or 5800x3d you'd likely double your overall performance at a third of the cost.

 

[HenrySomeone]

Fastest cpu overall, much faster in games and can be had for barely more than 7900x on a (potentially, if you so choose) much cheaper platform to boot! What's not to like, except of course, if you're a hardcore red team fanboy, then there will always be a pea under the mattress...

 

[fevgatos]

So, will you continue to be the Intel apologist again

That's BS, because Intel can force any of these mobo makers to go bankrupt overnight! You think they're doing this without Intel's knowledge/approval

Ιm not an apologist, the results in MT are underwhelming. In gaming ofc it literally dumbs on everything out there.

About the wattage, I don't care what mobos do, I care about Intel specs. You can have it pull 900 watts for all I care, doesn't really matter

 

[ymdhis]

120C and 400W, holy shit.

 

[Keullo-e]

At least it's useful as winter is coming so it can be used as a heater.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

The power scaling of raptor lake is pure garbage. Those efficiency cores are utterly useless.