Intel’s Raptor Lake processors have appeared in a recent set of leaked benchmarks which present promising ranges of efficiency, notably for the mid-range Core i5-13600Ok that’ll seemingly be a preferred CPU by way of its pricing – actually if these outcomes are something to go by.
The benchmarks had been shared on Twitter by common {hardware} leaker HXL, they are usually drawn from Blender, which measures the powers of a processor by way of extra critical duties like 3D rendering or modelling.
Intel’s flagship Core i9-13900Ok achieved a rating of 558, which falls considerably wanting the Zen four flagship, AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X, which managed 608, so is appreciably quicker. Crew Blue’s flagship is nevertheless – as you would possibly count on – quicker than the 7900X, with the latter scoring 462.
Away from the top-end, Intel’s Core i7-13700Ok hit 430, and the Core i5-13600Ok scored 358, which compares to the Ryzen 7700X on 306 and Ryzen 7600X which managed 235.
As Tom’s Hardware which flagged this, notes, there’s a minor caveat for the 13700Ok right here in that it’s working a distinct (barely earlier) model of Blender, which primarily signifies that its rating needs to be a bit larger – although seemingly not by a lot.
Evaluation: Worrying instances forward for AMD?
As ever, we have to be cautious around studying an excessive amount of outcomes from a single benchmarking supply and take an acceptable quantity of seasoning with any leak on prime of that. However, this spillage produces some fascinating speaking factors, essentially the most distinguished of which is mid-range efficiency.
Intel’s Core i5-13600Ok is about 17% quicker than the Ryzen 7700X and simply over 50% faster than the 7600X, with Crew Blue’s price ticket on that mid-range CPU weighing in at $319 versus $399 and $299 (within the US) for these AMD processors respectively. So it’s barely any costlier than the 7600X whereas being 50% quicker, a minimum of on this benchmark – which is significantly eye-opening.
On the high-end, AMD’s 7950X does simply take the crown for pace right here, being 9% quicker than the 13900Ok, however, the catch is the AMD chip is 18% extra pricey (going by US MSRPs in all instances right here). Whereas the Raptor Lake flagship is 7% costlier than the 7900X, it outstrips that CPU by 20% by way of efficiency right here.
Additionally, if we evaluate the 13700Ok to the 7900X, the AMD processor might not be far more than 5% faster (if we keep in mind the Intel CPU is more likely to be a contact quicker than the said consequence, obtained on an older model of Blender as talked about), but the 7900X is in extra of 30% pricier.
All of this leaves Raptor Lake trying fairly compelling, a minimum of when paired with this sort of heavyweight software program in taxing multi-core workloads. And that absolutely should be a fear for AMD, and will possibly go away Crew Crimson taking a look at adjusting relative pricing right here within the longer term, maybe – we will solely hope for aggressive surroundings to assist on the associated fee entrance.
With all that mentioned, what many people are going to wish to see is relative gaming efficiency, which we’ll know far more about very quickly – Raptor Lake launches on October 20.
