Canadian electronics retailer listings for what seems just like the Intel thirteenth Gen Core Raptor Lake lineup have appeared on-line. The listings, noticed by Twitter’s momomo_us, are for the Intel Core i9-13900K / KF, Core i7-13700K / KF, and Core i5-13600K / KF. Take these costs with a pinch of salt — there’s an opportunity they’re simply placeholders for the upcoming CPUs. Nevertheless, it seems like Intel’s new processors might be priced about 15% larger than the earlier era.
Trying on the launch flagship first, the Intel Core i9-13900K is marketed at CAD 941, which is about $725 utilizing at present’s change charge. The identical website lists the 12900K for CAD 818, or roughly $630. Intel has beforehand acknowledged it will probably be rising CPU costs, on account of inflation.
Perhaps there’s extra than simply inflation at play right here. Intel Raptor Lake CPUs have a bigger die, with extra cores (besides the rumored 4C/8T Core i3-13100 and decrease). The i9-13900K / KF has 33% extra CPU cores in comparison with the i9-12900K / KF (however the extra cores are all Effectivity cores). Do the additional silicon/cores justify a noticeable premium? Relies on your view — and what duties you want your pc to carry out.
|
Core depend |
Max enhance |
USD value |
Generational value improve |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Core i9-13900K |
24C / 32T |
5.8 GHz |
$725 |
15% |
|
Core i9-13900KF |
24C / 32T |
5.8 GHz |
$695 |
17% |
|
Core i7-13700K |
16C / 24T |
5.4 GHz |
$511 |
17% |
|
Core i7-13700KF |
16C / 24T |
5.4 GHz |
$483 |
17% |
|
Core i5-13600K |
14C / 20T |
5.1 GHz |
$355 |
16% |
|
Core i5-13600KF |
14C / 20T |
5.1 GHz |
$327 |
19% |
Knowledge from Canadian retailer itemizing, CAD transformed to USD
The KF variants are slightly cheaper — about $30 much less per SKU — with their fused-off non-functional iGPUs. In addition to being cheaper, the inactive GPU portion of the die is typically credited with serving to to maintain thermals in test. The KF disadvantage, as ever, is that you’ll want to set up a graphics card for show functions. Furthermore, it means you received’t have an iGPU as a fallback choice for system troubleshooting.
Some Alder Lake platform upgraders might discover these thirteenth Gen Core CPUs enticing for upgrades, as they are going to slot proper into present 600 Sequence motherboard setups. In the meantime AMD is shifting to a totally new platform inside an identical timescale — which means upgraders will even want to choose up a brand new motherboard and DDR5 RAM.
Intel thirteenth Gen Core Raptor Lake processors are anticipated to launch for desktops in late September or October, in line with the most recent rumors.
