Intel's upcoming flagship Core i9-13900KS "Raptor Lake" processor posts a 5% single-threaded performance lead over the company's current top-chip, the i9-13900K. The i9-13900KS is shown in leaked benchmarks scoring 2366 points in the Cinebench R23 single-thread, compared to 2243 points of the i9-13900K, 1948 points of the upcoming i9-13900 (non-K), and 2057 points of the AMD flagship Ryzen 9 7950X. This works out to a 5.43% gain for the i9-13900KS in comparison to the i9-13900K, and an impressive 15% gain over the 7950X. The multi-threaded score is 3.3% higher between the i9-13900KS and the i9-13900K.
The Core i9-13900KS wins on account of higher frequency, with its P-cores boosting up to 6.00 GHz, compared to 5.80 GHz of its predecessor, and its 150 W processor base power providing better boost state residency. The locked Core i9-13900 is held back by lower clock speeds of up to 5.60 GHz P-core boost, and power limits of just 65 W PBP and 221 W MTP. What's interesting in these numbers, though, is that even the i9-13900 is shown beating the 7950X in the multi-threaded test, scoring about 1.6% higher. Its single-threaded performance is marginally lower than the 7950X. Intel is expected to announce the i9-13900KS alongside locked 65 W 13th Gen Core processors, and 13th Gen Core mobile processors, in its 2023 International CES Keynote address, with product availability expected later in the month.
36 Comments on Intel Core i9-13900KS Posts 5% Single-Thread Performance Uplift Over i9-13900K
Yep them voodoo threads really kicked didn't they :laugh:
10 series just added 2 more cores from 9900k and resizable bar so hardly worth jumping on 11 either for single core boost with another 8 core.
12 & 13 though is all about how much you want to spend.
I did 10 series because x99 and x299 are shit compared to even 10 series at gaming.
And let's not even mention the comment section compared to a regular website with one, or a forum behind it. These are completely different worlds. One is for the gullible fools, the other for real info.
The first group is lazy and wants to watch TV 'while learning something', the last group is ready to make an effort to understand what's going on. That on its own defines everything.
If a chart has the 10700K but not a 9900K just use the 10700K as your point of reference because they are within 1% of each other in 99% of scenarios.
Ryzen's success was partly based on Social media giving it their blessing. Nvidia's dominance is also partly due to that as evidenced by the way they treated Hardware Unboxed when Steve took a vacation. Now you will see plenty of posts talking about Ryzen 7 being worthless and weak or describing the 7900 series as weak or not worth the money because it doesn't support dumd ass Ray tracing as well as the 4090 and is only as fast as a 3090 and 3090TI in some scenarios. What? Is there any card other than the 4090 that is faster at Ray Tracing than the 7900XTX? 3080, 2080TI, 3070, 3060TI.....Now that they also support AV1 encoding I watched PC world lament that the card was only as fast as a 3090. Again, What? After the 3090 was just the balls to the walls ultimate.
It's ok though as there are plenty of 4080s in every PC store I have been in and the 7900XT is readily available too. Sardonically this is also in part due to Social Media's influence on Greater Society. Lain Li 011 anyone? In a world where SSD NAND did not have the bandwidth to separate NAND performance how did Samsung become what it is today? Why were Seagate Drives cheaper than WD about 10 years ago?
The best for me though as I am an AMD user is that they pumped the Asus B550- F Strix board as being a great value. The thing about that board is it had no WIFI and all of the PCie slots other than the first one shared lanes (not in a smart way either). That meant that if you put anything in any of the slots it would disable all the rest of the slots on the board. All of this is while MSI budget X570 boards were being vilified for having VRMs that only supported 300 watts? That made them cheaper than most B550 boards and a much better value but you can't say that because unless you have a fan blowing air into the case it will get hot. What? There is so much, like how Nvidia never seems to have driver issues while AMD is a bug filled unrewarding experience. What is crazy though is that, even though the cards are blowing up, no one is referencing that in light of the 7900XTX, bullet points don't count. The 13900KS is on a dead platform but that won't get mentioned either.