Thursday, October 13th 2022
Intel Core i9-13900KF CPU Arrives Before the Official Launch
Intel's upcoming 13th generation of Core processors, codenamed "Raptor Lake," is supposed to arrive in the coming days. Apparently, one user pre-ordered the CPU and got it delivered to their home. Pictured below is the box of Intel Core i9-13900KF CPU. This SKU comes without integrated graphics and boasts eight P-cores with 16 E-cores on board. This is supposed to boost performance, along with the higher frequencies Raptor Lake is advertised to bring. The user even showed screenshots of proof that the software recognizes this upcoming model, so the information seems legit. In the screenshots below, we see that the P-cores of this SKU is reaching 5.5 GHz clock speeds. We are yet to see how much this silicon is capable of; however, the frequency alone looks promising.
Sources:
Jeges @ OC.net, via champsilva (TPU Forums)
68 Comments on Intel Core i9-13900KF CPU Arrives Before the Official Launch
Besides, raptor lake will not consume 290W in gaming and everyday tasks. It’s only under all core loads that power consumption and temps will spike. And you can undervolt or cap the turbo ratios to consume less power. I think it’s impressive what intel can do with intel 7… and makes me wonder what intel is cooking up when it ramps intel 4 and 3 to volume production.
Core VIDs are significantly higher than vcore (or VR VOUT), which implies that the reported Package Power is also higher than it actually was.
I'd say for 10nm it is impressive, no debates here, for a new build I'd go with a 5800X3D or a 7000 for sure
They will really shine next year with Meteor lake IMO, that tiled architecture + 7nm intel (which is, I think more efficient then traditional 7nm)
Most people won’t get the 4090 I realize.
After seeing this I just check my order status and it's still stuck in the pre-order phase. lol, I was hoping the retailer would make a mistake and send the preorder out sooner than they should.
When talking about "advantage", let's not fool ourselves, because Intel has EVERY advantage AMD does not have....Intel's 2021 R&D budget is $15+ billion dollars while AMD's is only $2 billion, so let's not act like by using TSMC's nodes, it's AMD who has the high ground or anything, because with respect to resources, staff, etc, Intel has every advantage. In fact, considering what an advantage Intel does have, it's even more impressive that AMD has been able to do what they've done.
here's mine:
Its obvious to anyone with a brain that if the 13900k beats it by 5% at 290 it will probably tie it at similar wattage, cause consumption and performance don't scale linearly at all. So unless this was just a fanboy meltdown, you are seriously misnformed.
Package Power is based on VID, but the VID reading is not a measured voltage, just a calculation which can easily be significantly off (either above or under Vcore) depending on motherboard settings.
The motherboard used has readouts from the VRM digital controller which is also showing that voltage was closer to the 1.25V vcore than the 1.37V VID. It also shows 301W into the VRM, 244W out to the CPU. The latter is the actual value used by the CPU; the former takes into account the efficiency of the VRM (not so great at 81%, might depend on the LLC setting used):
I'm waiting to see how the 13600k/13700k shakes things up. At $300 the 13600k sounds like a steal. If its not too much of a compromise on 1440p perf I'd be open to a non-k 13700 + a respectable b series board too.