The first retail-ready Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor lake CPU with 24 cores and a boost clock of up to 5.8 GHz has been leaked and benchmarked at Geekbench 5.

Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake 24-Core CPU Boosts To An Impressive 5.8 GHz, Beats 64-Core AMD Threadripper 3990X, Over 50% Faster Than Ryzen 9 5950X

Update: An even higher score on the same test platform has appeared on the Geekbench 5 data-base.

The Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake CPU sample tested here seems to be a retail chip that features 24 cores and 32 threads in an 8 P-Core and 16 E-Core configuration. The CPU carries a total of 68 MB of cache and we can tell that this is just a better "Retail-Ready" sample based on its clock speed alone. While the chip retains a 3.0 GHz base and 5.5 GHz standard boost, a maximum boost frequency was maintained throughout the benchmark.

This Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake CPU was tested on the ASRock Z690 Taichi motherboard with 32 GB of DDR5 memory though we don't know the actual memory speeds but based on this result, they should've been super fast.

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Coming straight to the performance figures, the Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake CPU at 5.8 GHz offers insane amounts of multi-core CPU performance with up to 47% increase over the 12900K and a 55% uplift versus the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X. The chip even outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X which offers 64 Zen 2 cores. In single-threaded tests, the chip offers a 14% increase over the 12900K and a massive 30% uplift over the Ryzen 9 5950X.

Intel Raptor Lake CPU ST Benchmark (Geekbench 5)

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Core i9-13900K (Retail) 2.3k

Core i9-13900K (ES) 2.1k

Core i7-13700K (QS DDR4) 2.1k

Core i7-13700K (QS DDR5) 2.1k

Core i5-13600K (ES3 DDR5) 2k

Core i5-13600K (ES3 DDR4) 2k

Core i9-12900K 1.9k

Core i7-12700K 1.9k

Core i5-12600K 1.9k

Ryzen 9 5950X 1.7k

Ryzen 7 5800X 1.7k

Ryzen 9 5900X 1.7k

Ryzen 5 5600X 1.6k

Intel Raptor Lake CPU MT Benchmark (Geekbench 5)

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Threadripper 5975WX 28.4k

Core i9-13900K (Retail) 26.5k

Threadripper 3990X 25.5k

Core i9-13900K (ES) 23.7k

Threadripper 3970X 22.4k

Core i7-13700K (QS DDR5) 19.8k

Core i9-12900K 17.3k

Core i7-13700K (DDR4 QS) 16.5k

Ryzen 9 5950X 16.5k

Core i5-13600K (DDR5 ES3) 16.1k

Core i5-13600K (DDR4 ES3) 14.4k

Core i7-12700K 14.1k

Ryzen 9 5900X 14k

Core i5-12600K 11.6k

Ryzen 7 5800X 10.3k

Ryzen 5 5600X 8.2k

Just yesterday, we exclusively leaked the specifications of AMD's Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs which are going to offer up to 5.7 GHz frequencies on the top parts and it looks like Intel just doesn't want to give away its frequency crown yet. Both CPU manufacturers are going to offer some insane (over 5.5 GHz+) clock speeds in the coming generation and that's bound to give us a huge increase in the single-core application suite.

Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake Desktop CPU Clock Frequencies Extracted via Geekbench:

The Intel13th Gen Raptor Lake Desktop CPUsincluding the flagship Core i9-13900K & Core i5-13600K CPUs isexpectedto launch in October on the Z790 platform. The CPUs will be going up againstAMD's Ryzen 7000 CPU lineupwhich also launches in Fall 2022.

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