Intel sells quite a lot of processors with myriad letters caught to the tip. You are most likely conversant in the Okay-series overclockable CPUs, however what about the -T SKUs? These chips have decrease energy limits and clock charges, and usually do not see a variety of leaks as a result of they are not often as fascinating to fans. Nevertheless, at present we have got a leak of simply such a processor, a supposed Core i7-13700T.
This can be a Geekbench 5 leak, in order ordinary, it was noticed by the electrical eye of the @BenchLeaks bot on Twitter. Peering on the three outcomes, we see a Core i7-13700T CPU slotted into an HP OEM motherboard. It racks up scores of 1893, 1916, and 1939 in single core, whereas the multi-core efficiency is extra modest: 8925, 11542, and 11564.
This chip sports activities eight P-cores and eight E-cores, the identical configuration because the Core i9-12900K. After all, the massive variations are that this Thirteenth-generation chip has a couple of architectural modifications—most notably a huge bump in L2 cache—and that it is restricted to a 35W energy restrict, which works an extended approach to clarify the poor multi-core efficiency.
That may appear to be an excessively harsh energy restrict for a processor household rumored to attract as much as 350 watts at most, however after all, this chip will scale properly above 35W if vital. Intel’s processors use a price often known as “PL2” for his or her short-term enhance energy restrict, and the PL2 on the previous-generation Core i7-T half was 99W.
The leaked Core i7-13700T places the harm on Alder Lake chips in single-threaded efficiency, however punches properly under its core depend in multi-threaded, with the outcomes coming in barely behind a ten-core Core i5-12600K. That chip is down absolutely six cores in comparison with the leaked CPU, however after all it enjoys drastically larger energy limits.
On the Ryzen aspect of issues, the single-core rating is unmatched by any extant Zen processor, however that is no shock as Intel’s present choices are very robust in Geekbench as properly. On the multi-core aspect, the Core i7-13700T skates previous the Ryzen 7 5800X—spectacular within the context that it is solely a “35W” CPU, however should you think about that it is a 16-core CPU barely beating an 8-core CPU, issues do not look as rosy. It is not as if the Ryzen 7 5800X is a warmth monster, both.
Geekbench is pretty consultant of a variety of various kinds of workloads as a result of it is a benchmark that’s recognized to favor bursty CPUs with excessive single-threaded efficiency; that is a part of why Apple’s CPUs achieve this properly on it. Even contemplating the comparatively low energy limits set on the processor, these Core i7-13700T scores are a bit low. We see reasonably similar-looking scores coming from machines outfitted with Core i7-12700T processors, just like the above end result from a Dell Optiplex machine.
After all, there is a ton of variance within the Core i7-12700T’s outcomes, and you may even see that variance within the three outcomes we now have for this chip. Possibly chalk the outcomes as much as warmth limits as an alternative of energy limits, as it is not like OEM techniques are recognized for his or her strong cooling. It is also attainable {that a} pre-release BIOS has one thing to do with the matter. Regardless of the case, it is going to be illuminating to see how certainly one of these Raptor Lake-T chips behaves in an fanatic system.
