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Last year, the performance boom brought about by the 12th generation of Kouri through process improvement and heterogeneous design is still in sight, but the 13th generation has arrived as promised. Compared with the previous generation, the motherboard interface of the 13th generation of Core has not changed much, but in the end, the measured data has improved quite a lot, which can be said to control the upgrade cost of players very low and improve the performance very high.

How confident is Intel this wave? This time, they even joined forces with Wang Shouyi to play the banner of "thirteen incense." So what are the improvements of the 13th generation of Curry, can it become the overlord of the new generation of consumer processors? In this article, CTOnews.com takes i9-13900K, the king of the 13th generation of core family, as an example to conduct a detailed test.

On the whole, the architecture of the 13th generation of Kurei has not changed much compared with the previous generation, but it has been upgraded and expanded in some key places. As a whole, the hybrid heterogeneous design of performance core (P core) and energy efficiency core (E core) is still based on Intel 7 process, but the performance core has been upgraded to the third generation SuperFin, combined with the updated design based on speed path improvement, the frequency has been greatly improved. A bigger improvement lies in energy efficiency. After tasting the benefits of 12 generations of Core, the number of 13 generations of Core's energy efficiency has generally doubled to up to 24 cores and 32 threads. The frequency of energy efficiency nuclei has also greatly increased, which means that there will be a huge leap forward in the multicore performance of the 13th generation Core.

In addition to the core, this generation of L2 cache and L3 cache have also been greatly improved. The i9-13900K L2 cache tested in this article has been increased to 32MB L3 cache and 36MB, which should have a significant improvement in game performance.

In order to solve the problem of mixed heterogeneous thread allocation, Intel has launched a new hardware thread scheduler, Intel Thread Director, which has a smarter performance on the 13th generation of Kerry and can make full use of small cores. In addition, Microsoft's latest version of Windows11 22H2 also has built-in more efficient thread scheduling, so it is recommended that all friends who use the 12th and 13th generations of Core upgrade to the latest version of 22H2.

For example, when we render a video in the foreground in Pr, the high-performance P-core is used by default to provide faster speed, but if we open PS to make pictures when rendering, the system requires significantly higher multithreading, so Intel Thread Director will automatically move the Pr to the high-performance E-core for rendering, and give the P-core to the foreground PS to ensure the stable and smooth work of the foreground.

The first product models are i9-13900K, i7-13700K, i5-13600K and the corresponding non-nuclear F version, the following are the core data.

One of the advantages of the 700 series chipset motherboard, Gen 13 Core, is that it is compatible with Gen 12, so players' upgrade costs will be very low. However, due to the addition of many new features to the 700 series chipset, it is recommended for newly installed players to buy with the motherboard of the brand new 700 series chipset. We use gigabyte Z790 AORUS ELITE AX motherboard here to explain.

CPU pins are still LGA1700, and accordingly, radiators and fasteners are completely universal.

The processors of the 13th generation of Core i7 and above all have high power consumption of more than 250W, so there are new requirements for the stability of motherboard power supply. The Z790 AORUS ELITE AX motherboard we use here has 16 "1" and 2-phase power supply, and it is easy to bring i9-13900K.

From the beginning, you can feel that the Z790 AORUS ELITE AX is thicker and more solid than the traditional motherboard, because the Z790 AORUS ELITE AX uses 2 ounces of copper PCB, and the thickened copper foil in the motherboard has good thermal conductivity, so that the gigabyte motherboard PCB can be used as part of the cooling system to assist heat dissipation. So as to further reduce the temperature of motherboard components.

The 13th generation of core has further improved its support for DDR5 memory, from the highest 4800MHz frequency to 5600MHz, but still did not give up DDR4 memory, we can still use cheaper DDR4 memory for normal use. Enthusiasts still recommend the next generation of DDR5 memory in pursuit of performance. For example, the Z790 AORUS ELITE AX motherboard provides four DDR5 memory slots. The theoretical highest frequency can reach DDR5-7600MHz, which can provide professional gamers with a denser and faster system memory experience.

The Z790 AORUS ELITE AX has a complete set of built-in support for memory overclocking. For example, all gigabyte Z790 motherboards support Intel ®XMP and AMD EXPO ™DDR5 memory. Users only need to activate XMP and EXPO in the BIOS settings to accelerate the DDR5 memory on the Z790 motherboard, thereby improving performance. In addition, several sets of overclocking presets based on the particle scheme are even provided, which are fully prepared for enthusiasts.

For enthusiasts with manual overclocking requirements, you can also manually unlock the DDR5 memory voltage control on the motherboard, support various PMIC voltage regulation schemes, and further improve the DDR5 memory overclocking ability and overall performance.

700series chips still provide PCI-E 5.0 × 16 support, the maximum speed can reach 126.03 GB / s, but also support Resizable Bar technology, can accelerate the communication between GPU and CPU. Z790 AORUS ELITE AX motherboard adopts alloy reinforced PCI-E 5.0 × 16 interface, and increases the number of iron claws to provide stronger tensile strength, which is very suitable for use with RTX 40 series graphics cards.

The number of PCI-E 4.0 channels has reached 4, which also makes it possible for more PCI-E to expand the hardware. For example, the Z790 AORUS ELITE AX provides four high-speed PCIE4.0*4 hard disk bits, and the third-generation M.2 cooling armor can also reduce the frequency without overheating for a long time.

Finally, all 700 series chipset motherboards provide USB 3.2 Gen2*2 20Gbps, 2.5G wired network and Wi-Fi 6e peripheral interface support, providing hardware players with a faster data transfer experience. The built-in Wi-Fi6E network card is also ready for VR wireless streaming.

In order to better demonstrate the performance of Generation 13 Core, our test platform will try its best to fill up all the configurations that can be filled. The specific configurations are as follows:

The motherboard BIOS uses its own strongest performance MAX Performance setting, this mode will maintain the full frequency operation of the energy efficiency core, which is suitable for us to explore the limits of performance.

In order to ensure the stability of the test temperature, we set the Smart Fan 6 fan on the motherboard to full speed mode.

Due to the increased power consumption of the 13th generation Core 13900K, it is recommended that the radiator be equipped with high-end water cooling. Here we choose the extremely cold supreme fire god P360 water cooling, it is extremely cold under the high-end model, to press i9-13900K is very appropriate.

Extremely cold supreme Yan Shen P360 water-cooled compatible 700 series motherboard, as the 600 series and 700 series motherboard heat dissipation fastener does not change, so the cold head can be directly used.

The i9-13900K we tested is equipped with 24 cores and 32 threads, of which 8 high-performance P cores support multithreading and 16 high-performance E cores do not support multithreading, so they are displayed as 32 thread boxes in the task manager.

In CPU-Z, we can see more detailed parameters. I9-13900K has the super buffer of 36MB, and the L2 cache of 32MB. The highest frequency range of P core is 3.0-5.8 GHz, while the high-performance E core has a frequency of 2.2-4.3GHz. Both cores support overclocking, which can be said to have increased the frequency of violence compared to the previous generation.

We then carry on the CPU theoretical running score test, first of all, the CPU-Z comes with its own running score, single core 901.3 points, multi-core 17167.5 points.

In Cinebench R20, i9-13900K scored 845 points in single core and 15577 points in multi-core.

In Cinebench R23, i9-13900K scored 2200 points in single core and 40936 points in multi-core.

The results of 3DMark CPU PROFILE running points are as follows, with a full core score of 16486, an excellent performance.

We have also made a bar comparison chart with the previous generation i9-12900K, and compared with the i9-12900K we tested last year, i9-13900K has a significant improvement in all projects.

In order to more intuitively compare the improvements of the two generations, we use i9-12900K as 100%. We can see that multi-core i9-13900K has generally increased by 45%, 55%, and 12%, compared with the previous generation, while the single core has increased by 12% and 15%. For two generations of processors whose architecture has not been greatly changed, this improvement is not insignificant. The doubling of the energy efficiency nucleus obviously played an important role.

Finally, let's do a memory test. The further support of the 13th generation of DDR5 memory has undoubtedly greatly improved the user experience. Here the colorful iridescent light bar uses the default JEDEC frequency 4800MHz. The final results are as follows. It can be said that DDR5 latency is similar to DDR4 at standard frequency, but reading and writing have nearly doubled. And we also found that the three-level cache read and write speed of i9-13900K has been improved in an all-round way, and we believe that it will perform very well in the next game measurement.

Game test i9-13900K multi-core is skyrocketing, single core also has a certain improvement. So how does it experience in a game that pays more attention to single-core performance? Let's next choose a few games with our own BenchMark to see how much its frame performance has improved compared with last year's i9-12900K. Because the high resolution requires higher performance of the video card, in order to reduce the impact of the video card, the following game tests are carried out in the case of 1080p high picture quality. However, even so, the graphics card will still have a certain impact, so the following comparison is just a pleasure, the reference value is not strong, the real control variables will be compared later.

Tomb Raider: shadow i9-13900K averages 303 frames:

I9-12900K average 201 frames:

"CS:GO" i9-13900K averages 880 frames:

The average frame of i9-12900K is 573:

"Total War: three Kingdoms" i9-13900K average 303 frames:

The average frame of i9-12900K is 196:

"Wild Dart 2: redemption" i9-13900K average 193.9 frames:

I9-12900K average 166.8 frames

The average frame of "Metro: leaving" i9-13900K is 153.44:

I9-12900K average 128 frames:

These are some comparisons with some past data, although the platform is not completely consistent, but we can still see that the improvement of i9-13900K is very large. Especially in games like "CS:GO" and "Total War: three Kingdoms", which mainly eat CPU performance and cache performance, the number of frames has increased by about 1/3. It seems that the big cache is really the artifact of the game.

Next, we use a rigorous method of controlling variables to see how many frames have been increased. Using the platform on which we previously tested RTX 4090, we just replaced the motherboard and CPU from the i9-12900K set with the i9-13900K set, so that we can significantly see the difference in the number of frames compared at the usual 4K resolution.

Judging from the above data, when the pressure on the video card is particularly high, the increase of CPU can still increase the number of frames by about 5% and 10%. In our previous tests, it was true that some games i9-12900K could not feed RTX 4090. On the i9-13900K, this situation will be greatly alleviated.

Next, let's test productivity and creative tools. First, PCMark10, which represents overall performance, scored as high as 10569, breaking the record of all computers in the CTOnews.com evaluation room. This is the first time I have seen a five-digit PCMark10 score.

In another software, CrossMark, which represents comprehensive office performance, we scored 2260 points in this configuration and can run all production creation jobs smoothly.

In the video clip test plug-ins PugetBench For Pr and Ae, i9-13900K also performed well: a score of 1646 on Pr and 1647 on Ae, a productivity performance unbeatable on consumer computers, with most of the special effects and clips running smoothly.

In the video color editing software Davinci, the performance was even more amazing, with a score of 2947, 447 points higher than the previous i9-12900K+RTX 4090, setting a record for CTOnews.com. Such a strong performance can be used as the main production force of the studio.

In the BenchMark of 3D rendering software V-Ray, i9-13900K reached 27794, also the highest in history.

Overall, the multi-core performance leap brought about by the doubling of energy efficiency has played a real role in creative production software. If you are a creative worker who needs multi-core performance, then i9-13900K will undoubtedly greatly improve your productivity.

Grill overclocking can be seen from the above theoretical performance tests and game running scores, although the 13th generation kuri has not changed much in architecture and IPC, but its performance has improved significantly, which means that its power consumption must be higher. This will undoubtedly pose a new test for the radiator. Therefore, for this test, we chose the ultra-cold supreme Yan Shen P360 high-end water-cooled radiator, this integrated water-cooled radiator adopts 360 cold row design, and the new third-generation double-cavity water head design places important precision components in the cold water layer space to achieve one-way flow. effectively prevent hot water from flowing back. The professionally designed copper bottom cold head uses microchannel technology to increase the surface area, coupled with a high-performance fan with second-generation lighting efficiency, which can effectively reduce flow disturbance, reduce noise and increase heat dissipation efficiency.

In addition, the Yanshen P360 also uses the new ARGB second-generation lighting effect, which can synchronize the lighting effect with the core motherboard manufacturer that supports this function. At the same time, each LED lamp bead can be customized using the included second-generation ARGB controller and MasterPlus + software.

In order to simulate the maximum pressure, we directly used Aida 64's single-baking FPU for 15 minutes. At the beginning, the temperature of the grill reached 100 ℃ and hit the temperature wall. After 15 minutes, it stabilized at 100 ℃, 300W, more than 50 W higher than last year. Because of this, if you want to buy 12-generation i7 and i9, high-end 360 water cooling is strongly recommended, otherwise you may not be able to hold it down.

The 13th generation Core K series can also use its own intel Extreme Tuning Utility tools for custom overclocking, which is a good toy for enthusiasts. However, considering that the i9-13900K has reached an amazing performance release of 300W this time, we will not manually pull the frequency this time, but use the Speed Optimizer button overclocking of the tool to see if we can squeeze out a little more performance.

It is measured that the BenchMark score of XTU before overclocking is 13377, and the score after one-button overclocking is increased to 13655, which seems to squeeze out a little more performance.

Before CPU-Z running score overclocking, single-core 901.8, multi-core 17167.5. After overclocking, single-core reached 918.3 points, multi-core reached 17565 points, single-core increased by 1.9%, multi-core increased by 2.3%. Therefore, the author still recommends that everyone turn on the performance mode of the motherboard by default, and all the performance has been basically released at this time.

In conclusion, although the 13th generation of Core is indeed a small change, but its performance improvement is indeed visible to the naked eye. In the gaming world, i9-13900K brings a big boost with a larger cache. In the field of productivity, i9-13900K provides stronger rendering and multitasking capabilities by doubling the energy efficiency core. Combined with the enhanced scheduling of Windows11 22H2, the performance of this generation can be fully released.

Of course, the most important thing for the author is that the interface and memory support of the 13th generation core has not changed, and the B660 motherboard + DDR4 memory can still be used to achieve ultra-low replacement costs, which undoubtedly gives the 13th generation i5 and i7 mainstream processors another reason for consumers. CTOnews.com will also bring you the i5-13600K picture and text evaluation, welcome to read.

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