Intel Core i9-13900 Raptor Lake ES CPU is 20% Faster than Alder Lake in Multi-threaded Tests

According to Expreview, they have tested the first Intel Core i9-13900 Raptor Lake engineering sample, the sample features 8 Performance cores and 16 Efficient cores. This sample features a total of 36 MB cache, an increase of 6MB compared to Core i9-12900K which has also been used for this comparison.

This Intel Core i9-13900 ES CPU is limited to a maximum clock speed of 3.8 GHz, was tested against a Core i9-12900K that was clocked at the same speed, for a fair comparison. Both CPUs were used with a Z690 motherboard, 32 GB of DDR5 5200 MHz memory with a GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition graphics card. According to Expreview, the 13th gen CPU is on average around 20 percent faster than the 12th gen CPU, although the extra eight E-Cores might have something to do with that in certain benchmarks.