Intel 13th Gen Core RaptorLake (i9-13900) Benchmark
Intel will introduce Raptor Lake (13th Gen Core) this year to replace the existing Alder Lake, which will be a competitor to AMD’s Zen 4 architecture processors (Ryzen 7000 series) codenamed Raphael.
Recently, SiSoftware conducted a simple test on an Intel Core i9-13900 ES processor. The objects used for performance comparison are the Core i9-11900K, Core i9-12900, and Ryzen 9 5900X processors that are already on the market.
The Core i9-13900 ES processor has 24 cores and 32 threads, including 8 P-Cores with a frequency of 3.7 GHz and 16 E-Cores with a frequency of 2.76 GHz. This is of course not a true spec for the Core i9-13900, the retail version is rumored to be clocked at 5.5 GHz or above. In addition, the processor is equipped with 32MB of L2 cache (8MB x2 for P-Core / 4MB x4 for E-Core), and 36MB of L3 cache.
From the test situation, the state of the Core i9-13900 ES version processor is very good. It is estimated that the actual retail products will have stronger performance, and the high-frequency core will play a very large role. SiSoftware said that in traditional ALU/FPU tests, even at lower frequencies, it showed a huge improvement in Raptor Lake, ranging from 33% to 50%. In the re-vectorization/SIMD test, the improvement of Raptor Lake compared to Alder Lake is between 5% and 8%. Larger L2 and L3 caches allow it to surpass or match AMD’s Zen 3 architecture, but it’s still not enough before AMD’s 3D V-Cache technology and Zen 4 architecture.
