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
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only parameter that reduces vrm efficiency (apart from vrm design itself) is switching frequency
As for 13900KF, well the massive cache should help with %1 low FPS and not particularly avg FPS.
It could be that the LLC setting is changing under the hood more than the slope of the VRM loadline, but otherwise I'm not entirely sure why this happens.
OS also recognized as windows 10 by cinebench R23 that is clearly windows 11:confused:
Being that Intel is going price aggressive (they can have lower margin per chip), AMD will need to align their offer.
By January next year, DDR5 should get more reasonable prices and motherboards will resolve any bugs (if any). Waiting could save you 300 bucks.
If you already have solid system, I think, this a thing to do.
If you need PC now (from scratch, so no upgrade from 12th Intel gen to 13th, as that should be pretty straightforward), then it could be a tough choice.
It would be interesting to see how performance varies between these chips when factoring in cache. Personally I prefer spending less with a mid-ranged CPU and board combo regardless of marginal performance compromise. The idea being upgrading earlier in 3 years (or 4-5 max). Then again i've seen plenty of people opting for i9's/R9s for gaming.
Cool story bro'As long as 12900k cost less, there nothing special about 7950x if it preform worse.
It does have the efficiency bonus but sad as it is, it doesn't translate to any meaningful advantage after you fine tune both cpus.
Even at a locked 65W the 7950X out passes the 12900K so there is actually right there a massive advantage and by using double the "P"cores to boot, simply amazing really.
Do you care about how many cores your gpu has? No, the performance is what matters
So to have 8 extra threads, cost more and preform better in some cases is nothing of an exception, especially when you are at a better node.
When you factor the whole system cost of MB and DDR, 7950X have extra toll vs 12900K- one that only few can justify from cost/performance point of view.
I myself would love to switch to AMD with 7950/7900 this round but as it seems that not going to happen cus RL on Z690 will be faster and cheaper.