With AMD’s Ryzen 7000 chips firmly on store shelves, it’s now time for Intel to shoot their shot. Team Blue’s 13th-gen chips arrive today, and on paper they represent a huge upgrade over 12th-gen despite compatibility with existing Z690 (and new Z790) boards. You get higher clock speeds (up to 5.8GHz!), more efficiency cores, more L3 cache and higher power targets – all of which you’d charitably expect to contribute to a significant uptick in gaming and content creation performance.
To discover if these processors live up to the hype, we’ve been testing the $589 Core i9 13900K and $319 Core i5 13600K in gaming and content creation benchmarks since last week. Our plan going in was simple: to find out exactly how much better these 13th-gen models are than their 12th-gen predecessors, as well as how they measure up to AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 and popular Ryzen 5000 alternatives – including the excellent Ryzen 7 5800X3D.
As with our Ryzen 7000 testing, we’ve opted to check two RAM configurations for each new processor: DDR5-5200, representing ‘budget’ DDR5, and DDR5-6000, the AMD-identified sweet spot for price versus performance. We’ve also done some more in-depth RAM testing on page five, showing the maximum gains you can expect to see from opting for specialist high-speed RAM over more pedestrian models.
Source – eurogamer.net
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