The Intel Core i9-13900K would be the flagship chip of the 13th generation Raptor Lake desktop CPU family, which would support the LGA 1700/1800 socket platform. Like its Alder Lake predecessor, Raptor Lake chips feature a similar hybrid architecture design consisting of P-cores and E-cores, but with more cores, higher clock speeds, and a boost for faster performance. It has a bigger cache.
We’ve already detailed what Intel’s 13th generation Raptor Lake and Z790 platforms bring to the table here, but we think the fastest chip in the lineup deserves its own summary. It’s not a major architectural update, it’s a refinement of the existing Alder Lake design that will delight gamers and content creators alike with just about everything.
The flagship of the series, the Core i9-13900K not only offers a decent boost in CPU performance over the Core i9-12900K, but also outperforms AMD’s Ryzen 7000 flagship chip based on the Zen 4 core show. You have to prove it. Features to expect from 13th generation Intel Raptor Lake desktop CPUs:
Up for 24 cores and 32 threads
Latest Raptor Cove CPU cores (higher IPC P-Core)
Based on the 10nm ESF ‘Intel 7’ process node.
Supports existing LGA 1700 motherboards
Dual channel DDR5-5600 memory support
20 PCIe Gen 5 lanes
Improved overclocking capabilities
125W TDP PL1 (flagship SKU)
The Core i9-13900K CPU part has not been officially confirmed by Intel, but there have been numerous leaks attesting to its existence and the fact that the chip will receive a faster “Special Edition” version with higher clock speeds. That said, let’s get down to the details.
The Intel Core i9-13900K CPU will have a total of 24 cores and 32 threads according to its specifications. 8 P-Cores based on the Raptor Cove core architecture and 16 E-Cores based on the Gracemont core architecture make up the 8+16 configuration that is used for these. These cores are all produced using the 10nm ESF, sometimes known as the “Intel 7” manufacturing node. The overall size of the die would be slightly larger than Alder Lake’s desktop C0 die because the chip will have more cores and cache using the same process node.
The Intel Core i9-13900 Raptor Lake CPU comes with 16 MB of L2 cache for the P-Cores (2 MB per core) and 16 MB of L2 cache for the E-cores as well (4 MB per 4-core cluster). This gives us a total of 32 MB of L2 cache, which when combined with the L3 cache gives us 68 MB of cache, or what is supposedly known as the “Game Cache”.