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Last year Intel released a "strange" product i5-12490F. It has a slightly higher frequency and three-tier cache than the i5-12400F, but the price is about the same. The box also changed from its usual blue to a higher positioning black box. The most special is that it is a special model for Chinese mainland area. In the past year, i5-12490F has been active in the configuration orders of major machine manufacturers, but also brought good market feedback.

Intel has clearly had a taste of it this year, not only with the i5-13490F upgrade, but also with the i7-13700F i7-13790F, throwing an olive branch into Chinese mainland's high-end installation market. Or the familiar black packaging, or the familiar large cache design. In this evaluation room, CTOnews.com will help you test the i7-13790F to see if it is a conscience special product.

In terms of architecture introduction, i7-13790F and i7-13700F are completely consistent, and the whole is still a mixed heterogeneous design of performance core (P core) and energy efficiency core (E core), based on Intel 7 process. After the 13-generation core tasted the benefits of the 12-generation core, the number of energy-efficient cores of the 13-generation core generally doubled to 16 cores and 24 threads. The frequency of the energy efficiency kernel has also been greatly improved, and from our previous tests, the performance of both i5 and i9 has been greatly improved.

The above improvements are for 12-generation Core. For 13-generation Core, the core of i7-13790F is exactly the same as i7-13700F. The maximum frequency of the performance core can reach 5.2GHz, and the energy-efficient core is the same 4.1GHz. The only difference is that the i7-13790F three-level cache increases the 3MB and comes to 33MB, which should significantly improve the performance of online games. Especially for games with a higher number of frames, the advantage of three-tier cache will be more obvious. I think this is also Intel's consideration for the market of PC online games in China.

Performance test in order to better demonstrate the performance of i7-13790F, our test platform will try to fill up all the configurations that can be filled to avoid the interference of other short boards. The specific configurations are as follows:

The test of the roaster is carried out first, and the power consumption of the whole process of using AIDA6 single-roasting FPU,15 minute roaster is stable at about 286W, the temperature will slowly rise to 100C, and the frequency will always maintain the high frequency of the whole core 5.1GHz. It seems that the performance of i7-13790F is very excellent, but the heat dissipation pressure is also very high, so it is recommended to be used with 360 water cooling. Full load power consumption of 286W and no overclocking means it is suitable to be used with a high-end B760 motherboard, not necessarily on the Z790 motherboard.

We then carry on the CPU theoretical running score test, first of all, the CPU-Z comes with its own running score, which is 834 for single core and 12036 for multi-core. This result is not exactly the same as that of i7-13700, but exactly the same.

In Cinebench R20, i7-13790F scored 765 points in single core and 11114 points in multi-core.

In Cinebench R23, i7-13790F scored 1981 points in single core and 29350 points in multi-core. It can be said that this achievement has far exceeded the flagship of the previous generation.

3DMark CPU PROFILE running score is as follows, the whole core score reached 12217 points, the single core also broke through 1100 points, the performance is quite excellent.

We have also made a bar comparison chart with the i5-13600K we tested before, and we can see that the single-core performance of the two is almost the same, but the multi-core performance, with the larger core scale, i7-13790F has obvious advantages in all projects.

Of course, we all know that the promotion of i7-13790F is mainly in level 3 caching. It is difficult to see where the promotion is based on running points alone, or you have to look for differences in actual use.

Game test from the theoretical performance test, we can find that the i7-13790F single-core multi-core has a significant improvement compared with the 12 generations of Kerry. The increased three-level cache should also make high-frame online games perform better. However, it is a pity that CTOnews.com does not have i7-13700F on hand, so it is impossible to do a comparative test of control variables. So let's use i5-13600K as a comparison to see what improvements i7-13790F's stronger multicore and larger cache will bring with the same single-core performance.

Tomb Raider: shadow i7-13790F averages 303 frames:

I5-13600K average 247 frames:

"CS:GO" i7-13790F average 818 frames:

I5-13600K average 770 frames:

"Control" i7-13790F average 239 frames:

I5-13600K average 230 frames:

"Wild Dart 2: redemption" i7-13790F average 200 frames:

I5-13600K average 181 frames

"Metro: leaving" i7-13790F average 155 frames:

I5-13600K average 149 frames:

From the frame number comparison chart below, we can see that although the single-core performance of i7-13790F is almost the same as that of i5-13600K, i7-13790F generally has many advantages in the game with more cores and larger L3 cache. And the higher the number of frames, the greater the lead.

Creative production next we test productivity and creative tools, the first is the overall performance of the PCMark10, its score is as high as 9728 points, is a very excellent performance. The author believes that i7-13790F with high-end B760M motherboard will be very suitable for creative workstations.

In another software, CrossMark, which represents comprehensive office performance, our configuration scored 2277, which is even similar to the previous test results of i9-13900K, which can run all production creation jobs smoothly.

In the video clip test plug-ins PugetBench For Pr and Ae, the i7-13790F also outperformed: 1494 in Pr and 1636 in Ae. This result is not much different from the i9-13900K we tested before, so it can be said to be a good choice for creative production.

In the test of another commonly used modeling tool, Blender, the i7-13790F also demonstrated good modeling performance with excellent multicore performance, which can be used for complex modeling smoothly with a large graphics card.

In the BenchMark of 3D rendering software V-Ray, i7-13790F reached 17194, which is also similar to that of i7-13700.

Overall, the multi-core performance of the i7-13790F has ushered in a huge leap forward, thanks to the improvement of the 13-generation core performance, and these multi-core capabilities have actually played a role in creative production software. If you are a creative worker who needs multi-core performance, then i7-13790F will undoubtedly greatly improve your productivity. Another improvement that cannot be demonstrated in the evaluation is the multi-task scheduling optimization brought about by the optimization of Windows 11 22H2 thread scheduler and mixed heterogeneity, which makes it easier for creative workers who need a large number of background applications to switch more smoothly.

In the author's opinion, the biggest highlight of i7-13790F lies in its good phase with B760 series motherboards. Since the i7-13790F can not overclock, it is not necessary to go on the Z series motherboard, a stable power supply of 300W B760 motherboard can fully meet the performance release. The price of i7-13790F+B760 motherboard is similar to that of i5-13600K+Z790 motherboard. For the vast majority of users who do not want to overclock and will not overclock, it is a good choice to buy such a larger, more powerful processor with three buffers.

At present, at JD.com Intel's official flagship store, the price of i7-13790F box is 2999 yuan, while that of i7-13700F is 2849 yuan. The difference of 150 yuan in exchange for this 3MB three delays, the author does not think it is very worthwhile. The most suitable purchase scenario for i7-13790F is the installation scheme provided by the major machine builders, who will replace the i7-13790F with i7-13790F, and the price will not change. In short, if you have the idea of buying the whole machine in the future, as long as you know that the performance of i7-13790F is basically the same as that of i7-13700F, but the number of online games is higher.

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