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The performance improvement of the 13th generation Core i9-13900K is impressive, but the author is still more interested in the performance of the i5-13600K. Because the 13th generation Kouri has not changed slots, the i5-13600K can be plugged directly into the motherboard of the existing 600 series chipset. The author is now using a B660 motherboard. If the performance of the i5-13600K is excellent, then it is possible to achieve low-cost upgrades.

So what is the performance of i5-13600K? Is it worthy of the promotion of "thirteen incense"? Can it become the overlord of the new generation of mid-range processors? In this article, CTOnews.com will test it in detail and bring you a picture and text evaluation.

The architecture introduction is the same as i9-13900K, the architecture of the 13th generation of Kurei has not changed much compared with the previous generation, but 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 greater improvement lies in energy efficiency. The number of energy efficiency cores in i5-13600K has also doubled to up to 14 cores and 20 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 L2 cache of i5-13600K has doubled directly to 20MB of L3 cache and increased to 24MB, which is a big increase.

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 the seven rainbow CVN Z790D5 GAMING FROZEN cruiser motherboard here.

The CPU pin is still LGA1700, and the corresponding radiator and fastener are also completely universal.

The power consumption of the 13th generation Koura processor has generally increased to a certain extent, so there are new requirements for the power supply stability of the motherboard. Here we use the Seven Rainbow CVN Z790D5 GAMING FROZEN cruiser motherboard with 16 "1" 1 phase power supply, with i5-13600K naturally no matter, with i9-13900K can also take the movement. In addition, F.C.C Ferritic inductors can enhance their own performance while reducing interference to other components, so that CPU can give full play to its performance potential. The selection of such a high-end motherboard in this test can also avoid the power supply bottleneck of the motherboard and fully demonstrate the real performance of i5-13600K.

With the improvement of the performance of the 13th generation Core CPU, so does the power consumption. This will inevitably lead to an increase in the calorific value of CPU power supply. So the motherboard of the Seven Rainbow CVN Z790D5 GAMING FROZEN Cruiser is covered with frost cooling armor, which can ensure the stability of the motherboard even if it is roasted for a long time.

The silver body is perfect for matching RGB lights, and the Seven Rainbow CVN Z790D5 GAMING FROZEN cruiser motherboard provides a complete set of ARGB lighting controls. In addition to the RGB lamp beads provided by the motherboard, there are also two groups of 5V+2 12V RGB pins on the board, which can control the lighting efficiency of the whole machine through iGame Center software and achieve synchronization.

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. For those with fever in pursuit of performance, the next generation of DDR5 memory is recommended. For example, the CVN Z790D5 GAMING FROZEN cruiser motherboard provides four DDR5 memory slots.

The Rainbow CVN Z790D5 GAMING FROZEN Cruiser motherboard has a complete set of built-in support for memory overclocking. Users only need to activate XMP / OC in the BIOS settings to accelerate the DDR5 memory on the Z790 motherboard, thus improving performance and supporting up to 6600MHz frequency. In this test, we will choose the 4800MHz DDR5 light strip, the champion of Seven Color Hongjia, to test.

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. The seven rainbow CVN Z790D5 GAMING FROZEN cruiser motherboard adopts alloy reinforced PCI-E 5.0 × 16 interface, which is suitable to be used with RTX 40 series graphics card.

The number of PCI-E 4.0 channels has reached 4, which also makes it possible for more PCI-E to expand the hardware. The Seven Rainbow CVN Z790D5 GAMING FROZEN cruiser motherboard also provides four high-speed PCIE4.0*4 hard drive bits, and with its own M.2 heat dissipation armor, it can also reduce frequency without overheating for a long time.

In terms of interface, the Seven Rainbow CVN Z790D5 GAMING FROZEN Cruiser provides interface support for USB 3.2 Gen2*2 20Gbps, 2.5G wired network and Wi-Fi 6 network card, providing faster data transmission experience for hardware players.

In order to better demonstrate the performance of i5-13600K, our test platform will try to fill up all the configurations that can be filled up. The specific configuration is as follows, and this set of configurations will certainly not constitute a bottleneck for i5.

The motherboard BIOS uses its own strongest performance Maximum Performance setting, which is suitable for us to explore the limits of performance.

In order to ensure the stability of the test temperature, we set the fan speed to full speed mode.

The i5-13600K we tested is equipped with 14 cores and 20 threads, of which 6 high-performance P cores support hyperthreading and 8 high-performance E cores do not support hyperthreading. In CPU-Z, we can see more detailed parameters. I5-13600K has the super three buffers of 24MB, and the L2 cache of 20MB. The highest frequency range of P core is 3.5-5.1 GHz, while the high-performance E core has a frequency of 2.6-3.9GHz. Both cores support overclocking. We will also test overclocking a little at the end of the article.

We then carry on the CPU theoretical running score test, first of all, the CPU-Z comes with its own running score, single core 825.7 points, multi-core 9896.2 points.

In Cinebench R20, i5-13600K scored 760 points for single core and 9198 points for multi-core.

In Cinebench R23, i5-13600K scored 1986 points for single core and 24094 points for multi-core.

3DMark CPU PROFILE running score is as follows, the whole core score reached 10323 points, single core score also has 1091 points, the performance is quite excellent.

We have also made bar comparisons with the previous generation of i5-12600K and i9-12900K, and i5-13600K has been significantly improved in all projects.

In order to more intuitively compare the improvements of the two generations, we take i5-12600K as 100%. We can see that the multi-core i5-13600K has generally increased by about 35% compared with the previous generation, and the single core has increased by about 5%. This 5% increase means that its single-core performance has exceeded that of i9-12900K. Multicore performance is only about 20% lower than i9-12900K.

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.

Game testing, so what is the experience of i5-13600K in the actual game? 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 i5-12600K. 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, some games in the graphics card will still have a certain impact, so the following comparison is for reference only, you can focus on the data of "CS:GO" and "Total War: three Kingdoms".

Tomb Raider: shadow i5-13600K average 247 frames:

I5-12600K average 116 frames:

The average frame of "CS:GO" i5-13600K is 771:

I5-12600K average 651 frames:

"Total War: three Kingdoms" i5-13600K average 270.8 frames:

I5-12600K average 195 frames:

"Wild Dart 2: redemption" i5-13600K average 181 frames:

I5-12600K average 164 frames

"Metro: leaving" i5-13600K averages 149.3 frames:

I5-12600K average 133 frames:

Judging from the above data, when the pressure on the video card is very high, the improvement of CPU can still increase the number of frames by about 10%. We then tested two other games, but the object of comparison was i9-13900K, which we tested earlier, which can answer the question of "can i5-13600K feed RTX 4090".

In the light-chasing masterpiece "Control", the number of frames of the two processors is about the same, and the pressure is basically on the graphics card.

"Control" i5-13600K average 230 frames:

I9-13900K average 236 frames:

In PUBG, the gap between the two is also small. All can run at the level of high score and high brush monitor.

"PUBG" i5-13600K averages 316 frames:

The average frame of i9-13900K is 329:

From the above two representative games, we can see that i5-13600K with RTX 4090 this top graphics card is no problem, will not become a bottleneck. So just for the players of the game, you can consider the installation scheme of i5-13600K + high-end graphics card. The i9 CPU is more suitable for people who need productivity and tuhao who are not short of money.

Creative production, then we will test the productivity and creative tools. The first is PCMark10, which represents overall performance. Its score is as high as 9964, which is not as high as that of i9-13900K, but it is also the second highest in all our records.

In another platform-wide running software, CrossMark, which represents comprehensive office performance, it scored 2205 points, not far behind i9-13900K, perhaps because it values single-core performance more.

The score is 1389 in the video clip test plug-in PugetBench For Pr and 1607 in Ae, because the number of cores is much less than that of i9-13900K, so you will suffer from projects that focus on multi-core performance. But after all, the foundation of 14 cores and 20 threads is still there, so smooth editing of 4K is not a problem.

In the video color editing software Davinci, the score reached 2673 points, and you can also do 4K real-time color adjustment fluently.

In the BenchMark of 3D rendering software V-Ray, the i5-13600K has a score of 16113, so it's easy to do some medium-pressure rendering work.

Overall, the multi-core performance of the i5-13600K is very close to that of the previous generation i7-12700K, which means that it has a considerable degree of productivity, and the i5-13600K can meet the demand for medium-intensity creative workers.

Grill overclocking can be seen from the above theoretical performance tests and game running scores, although the 13th generation kuri has little change in architecture and IPC, but there has been a significant improvement in performance, which means that its power consumption must have become higher, so let's test the grill now. Using Aida 64 single-bake FPU for 15 minutes, the temperature in the grill is more complicated. At the beginning, the temperature of the grill reaches 100℃ and hits the temperature wall. After 15 minutes, the temperature fluctuates repeatedly between 97 ℃ and 77 ℃. The power consumption reaches about 250W at 97 ℃ and stabilizes at about 200W at 77 ℃. Therefore, i5-13600K still has certain requirements for radiators. If there are conditions, the water is cold or try to go up.

The i5-13600K is the cheapest overclocking processor in the K series. You can also use your own intel Extreme Tuning Utility tool for custom overclocking, which is a good toy for enthusiasts. We try to manually pull a pull frequency, P core pull to 5.3GHz core E pull to 4.1GHz, it can still be used stably.

It is measured that the BenchMark score of XTU before overclocking is 7945, and the score after one-button overclocking is increased to 8050, which is indeed a certain performance improvement.

CPU-Z run score overclocking single core 825, multi-core 9896, after overclocking single core reached 841 points, multi-core reached 10013 points, single-core increased by 1.94%, multi-core increased by 1.18%, multi-accounting reached the mark of 10000 points. However, the author still suggests that we open the performance mode of the motherboard, at this time has basically released all the performance, against the conventional radiator to manual overclocking value is not great.

Summary for the author, i5-13600K is undoubtedly very attractive, and even moved the double 11 to buy a 13600K upgrade idea. Because the i5-13600K can continue to use cost-effective H610 and B660 motherboards, as well as cheap large bowls of DDR4 memory, for users who already have 12 generations of Core, they can get the single-core performance of i9 and the multi-core performance of i7 at the cost of one U, and there is a good reason for this upgrade.

For newly installed consumers, the author suggests using the motherboard of 700 series chipsets and more than 240 water-cooled radiators. Because the 13th generation core has improved requirements for power supply and heat dissipation, it is better to buy as much as possible if possible. In addition to i5-13600K in this article CTOnews.com also brings you i9-13900K picture and text evaluation, welcome to read.

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