Intel Core i9 13900K

Intel's Core i9-13900KS leads single-thread, multi-thread CPU-Z benchmarks among desktop CPUs.

Intel announced its Raptor Lake lineup of CPUs that will arrive on the market on October 20th.

Raptor shows its teeth: Core i9-13900K tops PassMark's single-thread CPU performance rankings.

Chinese content creator pitched Intel's upcoming Core i9-13900K engineering sample (ES) against a Core i9-12900K.

If genuine and not placeholders, the Core i9-13900K, i7-13700K, and i5-13600K Canadian prices would translate to US prices of $725, $510, and $355, respectively.

The Core i9 Raptor Lake chip jumps from being 39% to 59% faster than its Alder Lake predecessor thanks to the application of an improved cooling solution.

An Intel Core i9-13900K sample was seen clocking as high as 5.77 GHz in a recent Geekbench 5 benchmark result.

Gamers with this CPU and a high-end GPU will probably want to play at the highest settings. With max settings across popular resolutions, performance benefits will span the 3 to 6% range, on average.

ES3 is a leap above ES1 in clock speeds and performance.

The new Raptor Lake chip is on average 10% faster in single threaded workloads, and 35% faster in multi-threaded workloads, than its Alder Lake ancestor.