Infrared photographer shares Intel Core i9-13900K perspective
Intel Core i9-13900K is the flagship model of the new generation of Core, with 24 cores and 32 threads, 8 P-Cores plus 16 E-Cores, L3 cache is 36MB, P-Core maximum turbo frequency is 5.8GHz, E-Core maximum turbo frequency is 4.3GHz, PL1 and PL2 are respectively 125W and 253W, manufactured with Intel 7 process.
Recently, the famous infrared photographer Fritzchens Fritz showed the internal structure of the Core i9-13900K processor through an infrared microscope.
Image: FritzchensFritz
Image: FritzchensFritz
The core area of Raptor Lake-S is 252.65mm2, while the area of the previous generation Alder Lake-S is 215.25mm2. More E-Cores and larger L2/L3 caches increase the chip area and cost under the same process. Without calculating the L2/L3 cache, the area of the P-Core is 7.429mm2, and the area of the E-Core is 1.58mm2.
Both Raptor Lake-S and Alder Lake-S have a lot in common, such as the use of a ring bus to interconnect the core with the graphics engine, I/O interface, and memory controller. The P-Cores are arranged in two columns, and the E-Cores are divided into four groups of four cores each.
