As a lot as we’re excited to see Arc GPUs within the plastic flesh, the throw-down everybody needs to see within the latter a part of this yr goes to be Zen 4 versus Raptor Lake. AMD’s upcoming processors will likely be its first technology to make use of DDR5 reminiscence, however Intel’s subsequent chips will likely be its second with each the brand new reminiscence and a hybrid structure.
When you’ve been beneath a rock for the previous six months, then allow us to fill you in: Raptor Lake is the codename for Intel’s Thirteenth-generation desktop processors. They’re going to primarily be a refinement of Alder Lake, with the largest adjustments being the addition of as much as eight extra E-cores and a bump to 2MB of L2 cache per P-core. They’re going to even slot into the identical motherboards, though as typical there will likely be a brand new set of chipsets and boards, too.
Our story as we speak is certainly one such leak. A fellow that does PC {hardware} information and evaluations over on Bilibili by the title of “ExtremePlayer” laid arms on what seems to be a qualification pattern (QS) for the Core i9-13900K. Naturally, he did what we’d do in that state of affairs, and slapped it down into his ROG Maximus Z690 Excessive motherboard after which benchmarked the dickens out of it.
In his evaluate, ExtremePlayer examined the brand new chip straight in opposition to the extant Core i9-12900K. He feedback that the 13900K comes out forward of its previous-generation predecessor by round 10% on common in single-threaded duties, and by about 35% in multi-threaded workloads. These numbers line up very neatly with the predictions made by Moore’s Regulation is Lifeless method again in February.
Many of the single-threaded efficiency increase within the functions that ExtremePlayer examined seems to come back from the upper (5.5 GHz) increase clock of the Raptor Lake chip. Evaluating the 2 processors at iso-clocks within the CPU-Z Benchmark, they carry out primarily identically. In the meantime, the multi-threaded beneficial properties doubtless outcome largely from the addition of eight additional low-power E-cores.
Maybe probably the most regarding a part of ExtremePlayer’s evaluate is the picture under, which is a screenshot of the monitoring panel in Intel eXtreme Tuning Utility (XTU). Utilizing Intel’s personal stress take a look at constructed into that very same utility, the processor instantly shoots to 100ºC regardless of being beneath an AIO liquid cooler related to an enormous 360mm radiator. The core voltage droops considerably beneath load, which is especially regarding for the quantity of present passing by the VRM, because the package deal seems to be drawing as a lot as 420W.
The chip’s excessive energy consumption could also be an artifact of the firmware on his ASUS ROG motherboard having improper settings for the unreleased processor. The voltage is barely excessive in comparison with the Alder Lake processor, and it is also doable that the clocks aren’t scaling appropriately.
After all, it is also doable that Intel’s subsequent flagship CPU will merely be an enormously power-thirsty 24-core beast. We’ll have to attend till it releases to seek out out.
