Intel Core i9-13900K “Raptor Lake” on Geekbench: 24 cores and clocked at 5.5 GHz

From the now infamous Geekbench finally confirmations – definitive we can say – on the next top of the Intel Raptor Lake-S range, let’s talk about the much talked about Intel Core i9-13900KIn reality, this chip may not be the true flagship of the Core 13th gen desktop series, Geekbench confirms this peculiarity at first sight as the maximum frequency reported for the CPU in question is “only” 5.5 GHz.

At present we do not know if the new Intel chip is correctly recognized by the software in terms of frequency, the motherboard is also a Z690 (and not Z790) so it may not even properly support the latest Efficient-TVB and Per- functions. core / Package OC TVB. That said, the maximum clock frequency detected is still far from the 5.8 GHz we were talking about initially, even more than the hypothetical 6 GHz Raptor Lake-S discussed a few days ago, ready to counter the equally driven Ryzen 7000 top of the range (5.85 GHz it is rumored).

If we then look at the score obtained in the test, we note that especially in multi-core the performance is not very far from a Core i9-12900K Review, a sign that the optimization needs to be reviewed and the frequency / consumption management would at least need to be “adjusted. “with new BIOS. The definitive confirmation on the Core i9-13900K comes instead for the number of cores and the cache; the cores are 24, divided between 8 P-Cores (with Hyper Threading) and 16 E-cores (24 cores / 32 threads therefore), the L3 cache amounts to 36MB20% more than its ancestor.

The debut on the well-known benchmark platform is a sign that the first Raptor Lake samples sent to the testers begin to circulate; as discussed above, however, this will not be the real top of the Core 13th gen “Raptor Lake-S” series, but the “inevitable” Core i9-13900KS, probably ready and waiting only for the first results of the Ryzen 7000 Zen4. In closing, we remind you that the Intel Raptor Lake-S CPUs will be backwards compatible with the current Alder Lake-S Core 12th gen platform; the socket is the same LGA 1700 (good for heatsinks) and the PCI-E 5.0 interface is provided in addition to DDR5 and DDR4 RAM memories.