And is that the blue team has increased the number of E-Cores in all its processors, reaching 24 cores on its top-of-the-line CPU. Of course, in Intel the speed of the cores is of great importance and these Raptor Lake will reach 5.8 GHz… Although it would not be surprising if they exceed 6 GHz with overclock.
cores | Threads | turbo boost | Max Speed Cores P/E | L3/L2 cache | Baseline/Maximum TDP | |
i9-13900K | 24 (8P+16E) | 32 | Up to 5.8GHz | 5.4 / 4.3GHz | 36 / 32MB | 125 / 253W |
i7-13700K | 16 (8P+8E) | 24 | Up to 5.4GHz | 5.3/4.2GHz | 30 / 24MB | 125 / 190W |
i5-13600K | 14 (6P+8E) | twenty | N/A | 5.1 / 3.9GHz | 24 / 20MB | 125 / 181W |
More efficient cores to improve multitasking in Intel Raptor Lake
How could it be otherwise, Intel has started the generation by presenting its high-end processors for desktop computers. Specifically, it is the K and KF series, which are exactly the same, but with the difference of the integration of UHD Graphics 770 graphics.
If we look at the table, we see how the Intel Core i5-13600K uses a higher number of E-Cores than P-Cores, which shows the importance of these cores for the development of multitasking thanks to the improvements to the Intel Thread Director scheduler.
In fact, Windows 11 22H2 will make more efficient use of 13th generation Intel processors. The way it works will be to assign the tasks in the background to the E-Cores and take advantage of the P-Cores for the applications that we have open on the screen. Of course, if there are free P-Cores and the application needs them to increase its performance, the scheduler will allow you to use these cores.
As for the P-Cores, they are maintained, although they increase their base and turbo frequency with respect to the Intel Alder Lake processors, achieving 5.8 GHz. In this way, the Core i9-13900K reaches 32 threads (remember that each P-Core has HyperThreading), compared to the 24 of its predecessor. The Core i7-13700K reaches 24 threads and the i5-13600K, 20 threads.
In comparative terms, Intel boasts a 15% performance improvement in single-threaded tasks and up to 41% improvement in multi-threaded tasks on your Core i9 versus 12th generation processors.
New Z790 chipset with support for DDR4 and DDR5 memory
Intel maintains the compatibility with DDR4 memory, as it did with its previous generation. The company led by Pat Gelsinger understands that DDR5 memories still have a very high price and that the user has already been forced to go through the box to acquire a motherboard with an LGA 1700 socket.
Of course, the maximum performance of the Intel Raptor Lake will be achieved with DDR5 memory and the new platform supports DDR5-5600 MHz memory when using one module per channel or up to DDR5-4400 MHz when using double module per channel.
The new Z790 chipset gives greater importance to PCIe 4.0 lines, although it does not end up being a great evolution. with this hardware we have an extra USB 3.2 available16 lanes for PCIe 5.0, 20 lanes for PCIe 4.0 and 8 for PCIe 3.0. The path has been to subtract 8 lines from the old PCIe 3.0 to give them to PCIe 4.0, which has become the standard.
Price and availability of the 13th generation Intel Core
13th generation Intel Core processors will be available from October 20, as well as motherboards with Z790 chipset. At the moment, we do not know the prices in Europe, but it does seem that they will be considerably cheaper than the Ryzen 7000 processors.
Processor | Price |
Intel Core i9-13900K | $589 |
Intel Core i9-13900KF | $564 |
Intel Core i7-13700K | $409 |
Intel Core i7-13700KF | $384 |
Intel Core i5-13600K | $319 |
Intel Core i5-13600KF | $294 |