Intel Core i9-13900K Video Review by Techtesters
date : 2022-10-20 14:59:00
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Titre Original: Intel Core i9-13900K Review - 23 Games, 1080p, 1440p, 4K (vs Ryzen 9 7900X, i9-12900K)
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It is finally time to talk about the new 13th generation of Intel core processors and here I have the I9 3900k as well as the I5 13600k but today I'm just going to focus on the I9 and I'm going to cover the I5 in one of my next videos Now intel claims that this I9 should be the fastest new consumer CPU for both gaming and for productivity which is quite a big thing to say after what AMD has just shown us with their ryzen 7000 CPUs so we did a lot of benchmarking yet again in the last two weeks we tested 23 different games on three different resolutions and there is a lot of things to talk about today so without further Ado let's just begin this video is brought to you by seasonic and their Prime TX power supplies these fully modular high quality power supplies are extremely efficient they are very quiet due to their new hybrid fan control that stops the fans completely under 40 load they offer a variety of connections for any kind of system items you have in mind and you even get the new 12 volt high power connection you need for the brand new RTX 4090 graphics cards from Nvidia they range from 650 Watts all the way up to 1600 Watts for the biggest enthusiasts out there and as a nice bonus you get a cozy 12 year long warranty check them out using the links in the description below these new Raptor Lake processors are built on Intel's previous older leg generation they're also hybrid processors which means that they have a combination of faster p-cores and more efficient e-cors but this 13th generation has more e-cors added to them for better multi-threaded performance for example this new I9 3900k is a 24 core CPU with 8p cores and 16 e-cors while the last generation I9 the 12900k also had 8p cores but it only had eight e-cores the performance of the P cores should be improved as well and that is partially due to the fact that these new chips are running at even higher clock speeds going up to 5.8 gigahertz and the TDP has gone up slightly as well from 241 watts to 253 but as you will see later on the actual power use can vary a lot Intel is also launching their new z790 chipset to accompany these CPUs but these new processors are also compatible with the previous z690 boards as well as all the current socket 1700 coolers the support ddr5 as well as ddr4 memory and in my opinion it is so good to have that choice unlike with the new AMD ryzen CPUs so if you want you can save up a bit and combine these CPUs with a ddr4 motherboard and cheaper ddr4 memory which should be a very interesting combination for the I5 CPUs for example but if you go for this very high-end I9 you will probably end up getting a fancier ddr5 motherboard with some faster ddr5 memory that being said it is also important to mention that the 14th generation of CPUs and Beyond will probably require a new socket because Intel has a history of changing sockets every two years and then compared that to AMD that will continue to use am5 for at least a few Generations more so you shouldn't expect to just upgrade your CPU when the next Generation comes out if you buy this new motherboard right now but let's talk performance I am mostly going to compare this 3900k to the previous generation 12 900k as well as the AMD ryzen 9 7900x which should cost about the same as this I9
now for my testing I used the Rog z790 motherboard combined with corsair's ddr5 6000 memory and for the GPU I went with the new RTX 4090 the motherboard is set to its default settings with the XMP profile enabled and resizable bar is enabled as well as always if you want to know all the specs of all the benches used in this review please do check the description down below starting with the multi-threader performance in cinebench R23
now I don't have the 7950x myself but other reviews I've seen I showed that that one scored between 39 000 and 40 000 in this test in cinebench 20 there is a similar gap between the three processors with the new I9 being 35 and 49 faster than the 7900x and the 12900k respectively in the short blunder BMW Benchmark the 13900k manages to complete it in just under one minute which makes it 37 faster than the 7900x and 56 faster than the 12900k and it looks even more impressive if we add some older CPUs to that graph it is twice as fast as the ryzen 9 5900x it is two and a half times as fast as the 11 to 900k almost four times as fast as the 9900k and about five times as fast as the ryzen 5 3600x if we look at the longer Gooseberry render you can see the 7900x closing the Gap a little bit going from 37 to about 21 but the difference is still quite big and it is again 50 faster than the 12 900k but if we look at the power consumption it is also using about 50 more power during that test the Asus board is maintaining the higher boost speeds for longer as normally it should just drop to about 250 Watts but the bigger problem of a chip that wants to run 300 plus Watts by default is the cooling
now this h150i Elite is one of corsair's best all-in-one coolers and it was barely managing those 300 watts so to get the most out of this I9 you need a beefy 280 or even at 360 millimeter all in one and I would say that is a minimum requirement
now this only applies to the situations where your CPU is fully stressed because while gaming your CPU uses a lot less power and the average CPU temperature in the gaming benchmarks was only about 50 degrees Celsius single threaded performance is up significantly as well in cinebench R23 the 13900k beats the 7900x by 12 and the 12900k by 16 in cinebench R20 the I9 is 11 and 14 faster than the ryzen 9 and the last gen I9 respectively but how does all this translate to gaming
now god of war starts out pretty close so the 3900k and the 7900x both scored 308 FPS average on 1080p with the 12900k being a few frames behind on 1440p the new I9 takes a small two to three percent lead in average FPS but a 10 lead in 1 percent lows going from 203 to 221 and on 4K it is again pretty close with a small advantage in one percent lows for the 13900k cyberpunk 2077 is a game that notoriously seems to favor Intel and Nvidia and that just really shows with the 3900k being 30 ahead in both 1080P and 1440p but what is interesting here is that both I9 score about the same on 1080p but the 13900k holds up much better on 1440p on 4K though it's again all pretty close Spider-Man remastered is pretty interesting the AMD system performed really poorly in this game and even on 4K resolution it ended up being much slower than both I9 CPUs which kind of makes me think that there is some sort of a bug in the optimization that just needs fixing here but between the two Intel processors we can see the impact of a CPU bottleneck nicely so the 12900k Caps out at 193 to 194 FPS average on 1080P and 1440p while the 13900k manages to get around 240 instead Dying Light 2 also seems to favor Intel but the effect is a bit smaller the 3900k just about beats the other two CPUs in average FPS although it does give a nice Improvement in one percent lows World War Z is another title that is nicely CPU bound at low resolutions where the 3900k really shines
now this game also brings a much needed win for the 7900x or at least at 1080p the 3900k just beats it at higher resolutions Formula 1 2022 shows some of the smallest differences in any of the games so far at any resolution the AMD has marginally higher average frame rates and the 3900k has marginally higher one percent lows but they're all pretty much the same Microsoft flight simulator is a game that leans on the CPU more than any other which leads to each CPU showing pretty similar performance no matter which resolution you choose but yet again the 3900k comfortably beats the other two by 10 to 28 depending on the setup and finally CS is go the 3900k shows a reasonable improvement over the 12900k and compared to the 7900x it is actually very close with some small wins for both of those CPUs depending on the resolution you will probably never notice them while playing so purely for CS go any of these CPUs will be just fine
now if we compare it to the last gen I9 12900k the new I9 is about 10 faster on 1080p about eight percent faster on Quad HD resolution and about two percent faster on 4K resolution which is not unusual for a generational upgrade but if we look at all the games lined up I think that the difference is pretty significant so on 1080p out of 20 games seven of them show a five percent difference or less but there are also nine games
now showing less than two percent of a difference although always in favor of the 13900k on 4K resolution 16 games show a less than two percent difference so we're definitely GPU Bound in most games with the Microsoft flight simulator being the biggest exception with a 10 Improvement compared to the 7900x the 3900k looks a little bit stronger with being about 15 faster on 1080p 12 faster on 1440p and a bit over five percent faster on 4K resolution which is actually more than I expected on 1080p the AMD is only faster in 1 out of 10 20 games by a small three percent margin while Intel leads by five percent or more in 14 games 10 or more in 12 games and 20 or more in six games on 1440p the AMD scores two one percent wins but Intel wins by five percent or more in 10 titles and with 20 or more in five of them on 4K resolution as expected the difference between any high-end CPU is very small 13 games show a gap of five percent or less but four games still show a gap of 10 or more with Spider-Man being a strong lead yet again and I have to say that some of these differences did surprise me a bit because based on their single core performance I would have expected these CPUs to be a lot closer in games so when I reviewed the 7900x versus the 12900k using the RTX 3090 they were extremely close but
now with a much more powerful RTX 4090 the balance has actually shifted towards Intel with some games like Spider-Man like flight simulator or cyberpunk suddenly showing these big differences that we didn't see before that being said it is really important to remember that the RTX 4090 as well as the am5 platform are very new and it is completely possible that a AMD will push some updates to let their CPU get the most out of this fast new graphics card and speaking of improvements Intel has some work to do as well because I said I tested 23 games but I've only shown you 20 so far because I've been having a lot of issues in some of the games the problem is mostly with the windows 11 22 H2 update but I'm still calling out Intel here because they insisted we test with this version because it's supposedly includes important updates to the thread director but then with this Windows update several games had severe performance issues and this all applies to most other CPUs but it just seems to hit the 3900k much harder than others control and Rainbow Six Siege were completely broken and barely playable with constant micro stutters and outriders didn't seem that bad at first especially especially on high resolutions but on 1080p the one percent lows dropped considerably and the stutters got unbearable so something is clearly broken with 22h2 or at least in some specific titles because most other games seemed completely fine but it really does affect these new Intel CPUs so it's also on Intel to make sure that this gets fixed and I truly hope that they will get it done sooner rather than later all this aside I'm still very impressed with this new I9 it takes a crown in single threaded performance it is much faster than the 12900k in every regard and it comfortably beats the similarly priced 7900x in multi-threaded applications and it is the fastest gaming CPU you can currently buy AMD has made fantastic steps with their Zen 4 processors and they definitely deserve lots of Praise but with this new 13th generation Intel instantly managed to put some pressure back on which is great news for us which is great news for the end user because
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Test rigs:
Intel 13th Gen
CPU: Intel Core i9-13900K
Motherboard - ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 HERO https://geni.us/WKgFxl
Memory - 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5-6000 https://geni.us/yVI3dOH
Cooling - Corsair H150i Elite Capellix https://geni.us/wSXi
GPU - Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 (FE) https://geni.us/mz6tYul
PSU - Seasonic Prime Platinum 1300W https://geni.us/hqKXxw
OS - Windows 11 PRO 22H2 https://geni.us/g8T1Za4
AMD 7000 Series
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X https://geni.us/FmVsyhk
Motherboard - ASRock X670E Taichi https://geni.us/S1HHPz9
Memory - 32GB Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB DDR5-6000 https://geni.us/yVI3dOH
Cooling - Corsair H150i Elite LCD https://geni.us/wSXi
GPU - Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 (FE) https://geni.us/mz6tYul
PSU - Seasonic Prime Platinum 1300W https://geni.us/hqKXxw
OS - Windows 11 PRO 21H2 https://geni.us/g8T1Za4
Intel 12th Gen
CPU: Intel Core i9-12900K https://geni.us/8ew3
Motherboard - ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 HERO https://geni.us/rMCmKs
Memory - 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5-6000 https://geni.us/yVI3dOH
Cooling - Corsair H150i Elite LCD https://geni.us/wSXi
GPU - Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 (FE) https://geni.us/mz6tYul
PSU - Seasonic Prime Platinum 1300W https://geni.us/hqKXxw
OS - Windows 11 PRO 21H2 https://geni.us/g8T1Za4
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- All boards were set to their defaults, EXPO/XMP memory settings applied, Resizable Bar Enabled.
- Core Isolation was disabled (the default for Windows 11 with all 3 setups)
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Timestamps:
0:00? - Introduction
0:42 - Zeazonic 4tw
1:22 - Intel 13th gen CPUs and Specs
2:19 - Intel Z790
3:35 - Quick Test Setup Overview (Full Details in the description)
4:15? - Multi-Thread CPU Performance (incl Power Consumption & Cooling recommendations)
6:46 - Single-Thread CPU Performance
7:10 - God of War (1080p, 1440p, 4K)
7:48 - Cyberpunk 2077 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)
8:16 - Spider-Man Remastered (1080p, 1440p, 4K)
8:53 - Dying Light 2 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)
9:09 - World War Z (1080p, 1440p, 4K)
9:28 - Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440p, 4K)
9:48 - Doom Eternal (1080p, 1440p, 4K)
10:07 - Far Cry 6 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)
10:29 - Watch Dogs Legion (1080p, 1440p, 4K)
10:42 - Assassin's Creed Odyssey (1080p, 1440p, 4K)
10:52 - Assassin's Creed Valhalla (1080p, 1440p, 4K)
11:07 - The Division 2 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)
11:16 - Anno 1800 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)
11:45 - Borderlands 3 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)
11:57 - Troy Total War (1080p, 1440p, 4K)
12:07 - Wolfenstein Youngblood (1080p, 1440p, 4K)
12:17 - Dirt 5 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)
12:40 - F1 2022 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)
12:56 - Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) (1080p, 1440p, 4K)
13:15 - CS:GO (1080p, 1440p, 4K)
13:39 - 20 Game Summary i9-13900K vs i9-12900K
14:56 - 20 Game Summary i9-13900K vs Ryzen 9 7900X
15:58 - Bigger than expected differences?
16:48 - Windows 11 22H2 + i9-13900K Issues
18:10 - Final Thoughts
Disclosure:
- This product was provided by Intel for the purpose of testing. As per my own guidelines, they don't get any say about anything in this video or any of my other reviews. It's not sponsored by them, they also didn't get to preview this video beforehand, or any other nonsense like that. My reviews reflect my own views, nothing more, nothing less.
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