Intel Core i9-13900K Engineering Sample Clocked at 5.5 GHz Shows FPS Gains Over i9-12900KF in Gaming

[Peter_Brosdahl]

An Intel Core i9-13900K engineering sample with a P-core clock speed of 5.50 GHz all-core was benchmarked for its gaming performance. The Raptor Lake sample was tested in three resolutions...

Go to post

 

[Grimlakin]

Considering how instantly the 12900k thermal throttles on the best of cooling in performance mode... what the fudge is the 13900k going to do?!

 

[LazyGamer]

Considering how instantly the 12900k thermal throttles on the best of cooling in performance mode... what the fudge is the 13900k going to do?!

More cache for less well-behaved apps, better DDR5 memory speeds to keep the cores fed - current speeds are limited in part by the 12th gen IMC - and better thermal efficiency to keep boost speeds up.

With respect to gaming, higher clockspeeds are to be expected most of the time, as gaming represents only a moderate workload for top-end CPUs. Heavier workloads, like rendering or say compiling, will easily hit that throttling limit of course.