Friday, August 26th 2022
Boost Frequencies of the All-important Core i5-13400 and i5-13500 Revealed
When it releases, the Core i5-13400 will join a long like of Intel processors that are extremely successful in the market—chips that are priced around the $200-mark, and bang in the middle of the market bell-curve. Other chips in the lineup include the i5-12400, i5-11400, i5-10400, and the i5-9400. With the 13th Generation "Raptor Lake," Intel is configuring the i5-13400, i5-13500, and the i5-13600 (non-K) as 6P+4E processors (that's 6 "Raptor Cove" P-cores with 4 "Gracemont" E-cores); whereas their 12th Gen predecessors only had 6 "Golden Cove" P-cores, and no E-cores. The top Core i5 part, the i5-13600K, will stand out featuring a 6P+8E configuration.
Maximum boost frequencies of the Core i5-13400 and i5-13500 surfaced on the web thanks to Passmark screenshots scored by TUM_APISAK. Boost frequencies of 13th Gen Core processors weren't part of the recent lineup leak. The i5-13400 has a maximum boost frequency of 4.10 GHz, while the i5-13500 comes with 4.50 GHz. Both SKUs have an identical base frequency of 2.50 GHz. The maximum turbo frequency of 4.10 GHz for the i5-13400 is significantly lower than the 5.80 GHz of the flagship i9-13900K, and the 5.10 GHz of the i5-13600K. It's also quite spaced apart from the i5-13500, with its 4.50 GHz. Perhaps Intel really wants some consumer interest in the Core i5 SKUs positioned between the i5-13400 and the i5-13600K.
Sources:
TUM_APISAK (1), TUM_APISAK (2)
Maximum boost frequencies of the Core i5-13400 and i5-13500 surfaced on the web thanks to Passmark screenshots scored by TUM_APISAK. Boost frequencies of 13th Gen Core processors weren't part of the recent lineup leak. The i5-13400 has a maximum boost frequency of 4.10 GHz, while the i5-13500 comes with 4.50 GHz. Both SKUs have an identical base frequency of 2.50 GHz. The maximum turbo frequency of 4.10 GHz for the i5-13400 is significantly lower than the 5.80 GHz of the flagship i9-13900K, and the 5.10 GHz of the i5-13600K. It's also quite spaced apart from the i5-13500, with its 4.50 GHz. Perhaps Intel really wants some consumer interest in the Core i5 SKUs positioned between the i5-13400 and the i5-13600K.
31 Comments on Boost Frequencies of the All-important Core i5-13400 and i5-13500 Revealed
With a grain of salt, leaks have been more optimistic than pessimistic regarding Raptor Lake's capabilities. All of us enjoy this as consumers.
(this is 2x8 with viper steel 4000 16-16-16 sticks, p.s. rdrd/wrwr _sg 8 usually outperforms 6 in 2x8 real 1T, until tRAS/tRC becomes very very low like here - how curious)
Conclusion was that it's "fine" for videogames that aren't bandwidth hungry.
Will suck vs. DDR5 for throughput-oriented tasks, but that's not what corner-cutting gaming builds should care about.
Well, you know - just in case you wanted to use a non-K BCLK OC DDR4 board* for these processors to get an input latency-oriented setup rather than a (DDR5) throughput-oriented one.
Because let's be honest, why would you run 4.1 Ghz on a processor that probably does 5.1 Ghz 100% of the time?
* (ASRock B660M PG Riptide, MSI MAG B660M MORTAR MAX WIFI DDR4, in case you're curious)
AMD has nothing on them, 5500 turned out to be so much worse than 5600. And 7000 won't be an option for a while with the cost of DDR5 and AM5.
Unless 7600X costs $200 mobo and 32 ram another $200. But 6 core is not enough already. We need a mainstream 8 core.
13600K with 20 threads is overkill, a botched 10 Core, a 6 core++ most of the time, since 2 threads Pcore is roughly equal to 2 threads ecore.