Intel Raptor Lake flagship benchmark leak shows a seriously fast CPU
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Intel’s next-gen flagship CPU has been spotted in a leaked benchmark, with the Raptor Lake chip showing good speed.
The Core i9-13900K has surfaced in PassMark, as Tum_Apisak brought to our attention on Twitter (courtesy of VideoCardz (opens in new tab)), arranging the processor on four trial runs.
The 13900K scored 4,833 (average) in single-thread performance, which is about 15% faster than its predecessor (and almost 10% faster than the special edition 12900KS). A pretty impressive feat that gets it number one in the PassMark rankings here.
For multi-threaded, the 13900K reached 54,433 points, which is 31% faster than the 12900K, and indeed almost 20% faster than the Ryzen 9 5950X in PassMark’s CPU Mark. Again, that’s a good early showing, and certainly raised some expectations about what the Raptor Lake flagship could deliver, though we should always be very careful with leaked benchmarks.
Analysis: Things Promising – And A Sign Raptor Lake Is Coming Soon?
Obviously this is just one benchmark suite – and four sample runs as mentioned – so there’s a big limit to what we could conclude here. PassMark isn’t the metric we’re most excited to see in leaks either, but nonetheless it represents a piece of the puzzle as to the 13900K’s overall performance. But it’s just that – one piece, and not a central element of the jigsaw puzzle either, many would argue.
At the same time, there’s no denying that the kind of elevation shown here is an eye opener. Unfortunately, we don’t have any next-generation Ryzen 7000 processors showing up on PassMark yet, which of course would be the most enlightening comparison. And that’s a bit odd, considering AMD’s Zen 4 chips are coming out soon — on September 27, in fact — and Raptor Lake silicon hasn’t even been unveiled yet. (That reveal was set to take place the same day Ryzen 7000 goes on sale, which appears to be a tricky maneuver on the part of AMD in terms of removing wind from Intel’s sails).
Raptor Lake chips won’t go on sale until next month — seemingly mid-October or thereabouts — but perhaps these benchmarks popping up now is a glimmer of hope that they’ll debut in October sooner rather than later. We’ll see, but at least it points to Intel’s 13th Gen CPUs not being delayed from their rumored launch schedule anyway.
We already know that the stock 13900K can be boosted to 5.8GHz (albeit short), and a future chip – presumably the 13900KS, which will likely reappear as a special, higher binned edition of the flagship – will boost to 6GHz, Intel recently let us know. And again, that’s at stock performance, as standard, right out of the box.
So Raptor Lake is certainly shaping up to be impressive, but so is AMD’s Zen 4, with the next-gen flagship Ryzen 7950X already breaking world records in some benchmarks where the top performers used liquid nitrogen – and yet the 7950X ran with standard je- can-cool-this-home.