Intel has lifted the review embargo for the Intel Core i9 13900K, and its first gaming benchmarks have surfaced online. As such, it’s time to see whether the new Intel high-end CPU is able to compete with AMD’s latest high-end Ryzen CPU.
Guru3D reports that the Intel Core i9 13900K is noticeably faster than the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X in Far Cry New Dawn and Watch Dogs Legion.
PCGamesHardware also reports that the new Intel CPU is faster than the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X in Doom Eternal, Cyberpunk 2077 and Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered. However, there are a couple of games in which the Ryzen 9 7950X is faster, like F1 22 and Hitman 3.
TechPowerUp reports that the Intel Core i9 13900K is faster in Red Dead Redemption 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Battlefield 5. However, the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X was faster in Civilization VI.
Lastly, HardwareUnboxed reports that the new Intel high-end CPU is 6% faster than the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X.
All in all, it appears that Intel has reclaimed its gaming crown. For the majority of the games, the Intel Core i9 13900K is the fastest CPU!
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The price is paid via the absurd power consumption, though…
Plus no support for AVX-512, which is especially beneficial for RPCS3.
Lack of AVX-512 support is a real kicker here, I’m glad AMD has it enabled on Ryzen 7000 even though it’s double instruction.
True, and the performance uplift even with 2×256-bits is still quite substantial, plus it also avoids the throttling issue earlier 14nm Intel CPUs had with full-width AVX-512.
The real disappointment is that early Linux compiler patches by Intel themselves hint at that even next year’s Meteor Lake will still lack AVX-512 support because of the efficiency cores.
On the other hand, Sapphire Rapids will entirely consist of P-cores, thus will provide official AVX-512 functionality.
But that is a server & workstation Xeon part only, and therefore alot more expensive than the consumer versions.
Are you really going to buy a new CPU to emulate an old console? Buy the old console ffs.
maybe he’s not buying a new CPU just for emulation though; instead just pointing out a downside to the Intel 13th gen
+1
Buying a $600 CPU + $200 Mobo just to play some old PS3 titles would be crazy.
Almost all these games are on Steam for peanuts anyway.
I looked at the top 25 best PS3 titles, almost all of them are on Steam, including all Final Fantasies, Journey, etc.
I could only find 2 exceptions in that top 25 list, Uncharted 2 and LittleBigPlanet. And if you really wanted to play them, just buy a $40 PS3 on ebay instead of a $600 CPU lol.
Amd 7950 same consumption and no thread director so higher idle consumption
Wish these reviewers start including RPCS3.
Techpowerup does include RPCS3 in their review. Only tests Red Dead Redemption though, and I’m not sure if they enabled AVX-512 for CPUs that support it.
Thanks. Seen it now. Pretty good FPS boost. Although it is more playable on Xenia Canary. Guess a 4090 could easily do 2x or even 3x (4k) scaling at 60FPS.
from the rpcs3 developers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Rpq_2D4Rf3g6O-x2R1fwTSKWvJH7X63kExsVxHnT2Mc/edit#gid=0
Thanks, this list is really useful!
will be interesting to see how the Intel 13th generation fares without AVX-512
Pair this with a 4090, that’s 800+ watts max for the cpu and gpu alone.
So a stock $319 i5 13600k is beating a $699 Ryzen 9 7950.
And you can still use DDR4 with Raptor Lake.
Zen 4 is now way overpriced.
The i5 13600k is an exceptionally good CPU but AMD does need to lower some prices on their CPUs to stay competitive.
Yeah, here’s hoping intel gets amd to drop some prices. It’s no surprise that AM5 has been not selling that well. How can amd expect people to adopt a new hardware platform when the cost of entry even on the lowest end is so high?
The beauty of competition. Intel would have been charging twice the price for their I9 if this processor came out 6 years ago. Consumers are once more the winners here. That said these marks don’t make as big an impact in 4k gaming which is my primary gaming resolution anyway.
Yeah, but then it would not have been 3 years late.
AMD cultists seething hard I see. “muh power consumption”
I’m sure AMD when it releases a competitor will actually be zero power consumption
i just finished my build of the i5 13600K
its a beast seriously