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Intel’s 13th Gen Core i5-13600K Beats the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, Trades Blows with the 16 Core 5950X in Leaked Benchmarks

The first benchmarks of Intel’s 13th Gen Core i5-13600K (Engineering Sample, mind you) have surfaced, potentially spelling trouble for the budget Ryzen 7000 offerings. The midrange Raptor Lake chip features a total of 14 cores and 20 threads: 6 Raptor Cove + 8 Gracemont alongside 24MB of L3 cache. Despite being an early engineering sample, it manages to beat the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X while also coming quite close to the 16 core Ryzen 9 5950X:

Source: ECSM Official (Bilibili).

In the CPU-Z benchmark, the Core i5-13600K is 28% faster than the Ryzen 9 5950X in the single-threaded metric while pretty much leveling with it in the multi-core test despite featuring fewer cores, not to mention just 6 P-cores.

In Cinebench R23, the Core i5-13600K seems to be running at low speeds resulting in mediocre single-threaded performance, something that should be fixed with the qualification samples. In the multi-core benchmark, it’s an amazing 37% faster than the Core i5-12600K while also beating the Ryzen 9 5900X by about 10%.

The Core i5-13600K manages to one-up the Ryzen 7 5800X by a whole 6,xxx points, coming really close to the Ryzen 9 5950X as well. The final retail version should perform similar to the latter, making it an incredible VoM CPU. I can already picture the 13600K leading the bestselling charts across most major markets.

Areej Syed

Processors, PC gaming, and the past. I have been writing about computer hardware for over seven years with more than 5000 published articles. Started off during engineering college and haven't stopped since. Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Divinity, Torment, Baldur's Gate and so much more... Contact: areejs12@hardwaretimes.com.
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