The i9-13900K seen under Geekbench at 5.5 GHz

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The next high-end 24-core Raptor Lake series has been tested under Geekbench coupled with an ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Extreme motherboard. If it is difficult to say how mature the i9-13900K tested is, it still reached 5.5Ghz in turbo mode and its base clock was 3.0 GHz. For the rest, we have confirmation that this processor has 24 cores in total and 32 threads. Here too, we find confirmation of the L3 cache level of 36 MB and the L1/L2 caches that are in line with previous leaks on this 13th generation. i9-13900K

Considering the above mentioned frequencies, this Core i9-13900K copy would be 7% faster in single core and 37% faster in multi-core in the same Geekbench 5 test than a commercial Core i9-12900K when compared with the official ranking. This score also means that this 13900K is up to 48% faster than the Ryzen 9 5950X. The addition of 8 more E cores clearly helps the Raptor Lake chip outperform its big brother Alder Lake. However, the frequencies announced here are still questionable. First of all, the announced base frequency (3Ghz) seems low and could explain the “modest” gain in single-core. Concerning the “boost” frequency, the 5.8Ghz are regularly evoked for some time for the next final copies of the i9-13900K. Finally, there is the question of the bios. Even if most manufacturers have released versions that allow their Z690 cards to accept Raptor Lake, nothing says that these versions are still able to fully exploit all the features of future CPUs, especially the cache.