Friday, June 24th 2022
Intel's 13th Gen Raptor Lake ES CPU gets Benchmarked
Just hours ago a CPU-Z screenshot of an Intel Raptor Lake ES CPU appeared and the same CPU now appears to have been put through a full battery of benchmark tests, courtesy of Expreview. This upcoming 13th gen Core CPU from Intel is limited to a maximum clock speed of 3.8 GHz and as such, was tested against a Core i9-12900K that was clocked at the same speed, for a fair comparison. Both CPUs were used with an unknown Z690 motherboard, 32 GB of DDR5 5200 MHz memory with unknown timings and a GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition graphics card. According to Expreview, the 13th gen CPU is on average around 20 percent faster than the 12th gen CPU, although the extra eight E-Cores might have something to do with that in certain benchmarks.
In Sisoft Sandra 2021 the ES sample is as much as 51.5 percent faster in the double precision floating point test, which is the extreme outlier, but it's ahead by around 15-25 percent in most of the other tests. In several other tests, it's ahead by anything from as little as less than three percent to as much as 25 percent, with more multithreaded types of benchmarks seeing the largest gains, as expected. However, in some of the single threaded tests, Alder Lake is edging out Raptor Lake by 10 percent or more, for example in Pov-Ray and Cinebench. Most of the game tests favour Intel's 12th gen over the 13th gen ES sample, although it's possible that the limited clock speeds are holding back the Raptor Lake CPU. The two are either neck in neck or Alder Lake being ahead with anything from a couple of percent to almost nine percent. Keep in mind that it's still early days and everything from UEFI support to drivers will be improved before Raptor Lake launches later this year. There's also the limited clock speed which is likely to play a significant role in the final performance as well, but this does at least provide a first taste of what's to come. Head over to Expreview for their full set of benchmarks.
Sources:
Expreview, via @momomo_us
In Sisoft Sandra 2021 the ES sample is as much as 51.5 percent faster in the double precision floating point test, which is the extreme outlier, but it's ahead by around 15-25 percent in most of the other tests. In several other tests, it's ahead by anything from as little as less than three percent to as much as 25 percent, with more multithreaded types of benchmarks seeing the largest gains, as expected. However, in some of the single threaded tests, Alder Lake is edging out Raptor Lake by 10 percent or more, for example in Pov-Ray and Cinebench. Most of the game tests favour Intel's 12th gen over the 13th gen ES sample, although it's possible that the limited clock speeds are holding back the Raptor Lake CPU. The two are either neck in neck or Alder Lake being ahead with anything from a couple of percent to almost nine percent. Keep in mind that it's still early days and everything from UEFI support to drivers will be improved before Raptor Lake launches later this year. There's also the limited clock speed which is likely to play a significant role in the final performance as well, but this does at least provide a first taste of what's to come. Head over to Expreview for their full set of benchmarks.
27 Comments on Intel's 13th Gen Raptor Lake ES CPU gets Benchmarked
If that is the case, I think I would prefer 12th gen Intel or hold out for 7000 series 3D cache from AMD
all I do is game, so the other crap doesn't interest me
st performance isnt purely ipc, its an es sample @ 65w hence the low st performance
they wont release a cpu with worse ipc
Look it won't matter much at all what you buy, both systems will have plenty of performance and I'm sure Intel will win a few benchmarks and AMD will win a few, but I know Zen 4 will dominate for energy efficiency and with 3D cache coming earlier than expected, they will reign supreme. Pretty sure my cpu will be a 7900X. I'm really waiting for Meteor Lake/Arrow Lake from Intel.
1. Unkown Z690 motherboard & thus an early release bios to support raptor lake, keeping in mind with reference to the last generation that rocket lake was optimised for Z590 motherboards & I would not be surprised in the slightest if this is the same similar case this time around with unreleased Z790 boards.
2. Unkown timings on the DDR5 ram. Memory timings regardless of DRAM generation can & does have an effect on most benchmarks.
But that won't stop the commenters "speculating". :)
I still have my X79 PC with my i7-3930k @4.3GHZ 4x8 32GB 1600MHZ 24/7 no bios tweaks all Auto on AIO cooler since 2012 with my Dell 3008 30" 2560x1600 GPUs & Raid SSDs only thing i upgraded is to GTX 970 back in 2015 and kept one of the 560Ti 2GB for PhysX
Just last year i bulit a new PC with an i9-9900KF 32GB 3200MHZ RTX 3060TI FTW3 Ultra , so the i7-3930k served me 10 years and still my kids use it and me sometimes.
I doubt Raptor Lake will be any worse than Alder Lake, but I wouldn't expect it to be much better either. It's a minor architectural overhaul, so we should expect small gains overall. But as with any change, there could be outliers where we see performance regressions too.
But overall, this is a benchmark of an ES sample in an unknown state. Even the reported clock speeds are usually intentionally incorrect, plus certain features can be disabled in firmware, so I wouldn't care about benchmarks until we see QS samples or final samples.BIOS shouldn't directly affect CPU performance.
the 11900K coming out with two less cores, less cache and lower base clock speeds is something that everyone hopes they never do again, but it's been done before so it's a genuine concern
I fear that Intel will take the easy path and just add more e-cores, and focus on fixing them like AMD did with tweaking inter-CCX performance and latencies. If they've got leading ST performance even by the tiniest fraction, they can throw on E-cores and win MT benches and call it a day.Ivy bridge was a great leap forward, even if it just removed some artificial caps sandy bridge had.
My 2500K was hard locked to 1866Mhz on the ram, but swapping to my 3770k unlocked 2400Mhz (and overclocking above that) on the same board and RAM
I love the generations where things CHANGE.
Sandy bridge gave us great performance and easy overclocking.
Ivy bridge added insane ram speeds to that platform, and seriously - DDR3 2400 really, REALLY kicked the performance higher on those chips with later-generation GPU's.
Zen 1 changed the 4 cores + SMT formula and shook the entire tech industry (look at epyc/threadripper, intel going from four cores to 20)
Zen 3 changed the expectations for power efficiency and multi threaded performance - the 'perfected' multi CCX tech at its best (so far)
The5800x3D shook things again with game-changing gaming performance, although it's limited to a 'low' 8 cores at present
Alder lake isn't a favorite of mine, but it sure as hell changed things as much as Zen 1 did - instead of multiple matching CCX designs, they went big.LITTLE and forced a paradigm shift in operating systems we haven't truly felt yet.
This is really, really bordering on the ability to slot in a PCI-E CPU like the old co-processor days since windows can now handle different CPU architectures with different instruction sets in the same PC.
But the fact remains that i9-11900K outperformed i9-10900K both in average, and in most productive workloads and gaming, so overall it's a faster product. Some like you are fixated by the core count, but you shouldn't, as the real thing that matters is performance. If AMD tomorrow released a quad core which beat all other mainstream CPUs, wouldn't a rational person buy that over a CPU with more cores?
As for cache, don't get fixated by that either. Cache sizes have varied a lot over the last 30 years, but other things beyond cache size matters, like bank configuration, latency and bandwidth.
And to be completely pedantic, claiming there is less cache is also quite misleading, as both L1 and L2 is significantly larger on 11th gen, and each cache line in L1/L2 is much more valuable than a cache line in L3. While the total L3 is a bit smaller, there is also fewer cores competing over it, so overall there is not much difference.I fear that too. And they probably will, as the primary motivation for bringing E-cores to desktop is for marketing reasons. Specs like clock speed, core count and synthetic benchmarks is what sells, both in the OEM market and to most custom builders.
Anyway, point was that sometimes an individual product can go backwards, even if the lineup as a whole goes forwards... the 11900k received the infamous title of a 'waste of sand'
11th gen was a decent improvement, but it was so delayed that it arrived shortly before 12th gen, which is why it received so much criticism. If it had arrived one year earlier, the reception would have been very different.
11 & 12 series were pure rushed reaction releases because amd handed intel their ass's with a single 5k series drop :cool:
11 was just a single core bump to get by amd single core
12 was to do both single and multi core over amd 5k series
AMD just laughed that it took intel two freaking series to get past 5k amd chips :laugh: