The SiSoftware site has a preview of the 13th generation Intel processor, which includes large and small cores. We are talking about the Core i9-13900 model, in which the total number of cores reaches 24.
It should be noted that this is not a typical review based on actual device testing, but rather an aggregation of existing results in the SiSoftware Sandra database. Therefore, it should be taken as an overview of the future architecture with elements of real performance testing.
The Intel Core i9-13900 processor includes 8 Performance cores and 16 Efficient cores. The chip is based on the Intel 7+ manufacturing architecture. It contains a 20% larger L3 cache and supports faster DDR5 RAM up to 5600 MT/s (versus 4800 MT/s for Alder Lake). In addition, improvements have also affected the second-level cache, its number in the Raptor Lake series processors has been increased by about 2 times – up to 2 MB per core for large cores and up to 4 MB for a cluster of 4 small cores. However, the chip does not support AVX-512.
The ALU/FPU test results show a 33% to 50% performance boost for the Intel Core i9-13900 compared to the Alder Lake series. And this is at a lower operating frequency:
- Raptor Lake – 3.7GHz for P-Core and 2.76GHz for E-Core
- Alder Lake – 5.0 GHz for P-Core and 3.8 GHz for E-Core.
At the same time, in the vectorized / SIMD test, the performance gain is from 5% to 8%.
As expected, the official release of Intel 13th generation processors will take place in a few months.
Source: videocardz
