In the Raptor Lake range, whose first models we tested here, many of us are waiting for the I5-13400, which should be a good successor to the excellent 12400. Some leaks seem to confirm the promising character of this next “small” I5. Thus, we can discover the first performance tests in the integrated benchmark of CPU-Z. First of all, let’s remember that this 13400 will have a configuration with 10 cores and 16 threads. The 10 cores are divided into 6x high performance cores (P-Core) and 4x low power cores (E-Core). These run at a Base/Turbo frequency of 2.50 / 4.60 GHz and will benefit from 20 MB of L3 cache.
In this leak, the new processor achieves a single-core score of 729.3 points, which is not really a breakthrough since it only gains 3% compared to its predecessor, the Core i5-12400. However, the multi-core score changes completely with a score of 6,591.5 points, which is a performance gain of 31% compared to the Core i5-12400. This gain is obviously due to the switch from 6 to 10 cores between the 12400 and the 13400. In total, comparing it in the same benchmark to the 12600K, we get a CPU 6% behind the 12600K but with a much lower energy consumption.
It will be necessary to watch carefully the price of this next I5 to see if it can follow the career of its elder the 12400. This processor as the rest of the range should be launched at the very beginning of the year 2023.
