Intel Releases Curious Core i5-13490F SKU in the Chinese Market

[btarunr]

Intel released a curiously-named Core i5-13490F desktop processor SKU in the Chinese market, in what is a sign that the company is optimizing its lineup to better square off against AMD's Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 "Zen 4" processors at highly competitive pricing. The i5-13490F is positioned in between the i5-13400F and the i5-13500. It has the same 6P+4E core-configuration as the i5-13400F, and not the 6P+8E configuration of the i5-13500; but comes with a larger shared L3 cache of 24 MB, compared to 20 MB on the i5-13400F. The P-cores still only get 1.25 MB of L2 cache a piece, and the E-core clusters each only get 2 MB of shared L2 cache. As an "F" SKU, it lacks integrated graphics. The clock-speeds see the P-cores at a maximum boost frequency of 4.70 GHz (compared to 4.60 GHz of the i5-13400F). A quick CPU-Z Bench run put the processor's performance at roughly 6% higher single-threaded score than the i5-13400F, and a roughly 4.5% higher multi-threaded score.



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[Space Lynx]

interesting, a larger cache is something that interests Intel then.

It will be interesting to see if they surprise us with Meteor Lake, maybe not with x3d level of caches, but maybe a bit more than we expect none the less, this def proves it is on their mind.

 

[N/A]

CPUs need at least 30MB of L3 in games, the 6 core got destroyed as demonstrated by the good old gamer. 24Mb may be borderline insufficient.

 

[Gica]

I think these 13490F are just a recycling of 13500/13600 with igp or E core defects (they didn't release 13500F and 13600F and probably not many igp defects to justify a release). You can disable a pack of 4 E-cores because they have dedicated L2, but you can't cut from L3, which is shared by all cores.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I think these 13490F are just a recycling of 13500/13600 with igp or E core defects (they didn't release 13500F and 13600F and probably not many igp defects to justify a release). You can disable a pack of 4 E-cores because they have dedicated L2, but you can't cut from L3, which is shared by all cores.

This. Intel is just binning for a specific market sector.

 

[pressing on]

This. Intel is just binning for a specific market sector.

Yes, and before this there was a i5-12490F for the same market so I'm not sure why this CPU is being tagged as 'curious'.

 

[lexluthermiester]

so I'm not sure why this CPU is being tagged as 'curious'.

Because these models are not showing up in market's other than China, which is odd.

 

[Minus Infinity]

How come no mention of the i7 13790F? Imagine 13700K with more cache. I hope these get sold outside of China eventually.