We expect Intel Raptor Lake processors to be among the best gaming processors you can buy this year. In fact, new tests show that they will offer a significant performance boost over Team Blue’s current 12th-gen chips, namely the Core i9 12900K.
Expreview seems to have received Intel Raptor Lake an engineering sample that looks like a Core i9 13900, based on it having 24 cores (eight for performance and 16 for efficiency). Although not the ultimate silicon, the 13th Gen CPU was able to outperform the Core i9 12900K by 20% on average (according to Wccftech).
The performance differences were mostly present in multi-threaded applications and workloads, but the Intel Raptor Lake chip actually lagged behind its Alder Lake counterpart in single-threaded performance tests. However, this is probably a symptom of its pre-production nature.
It’s only a matter of time before the full 13th Gen Intel Core chips appear in benchmarks ahead of the Raptor Lake release date, which is expected to arrive later this year. Once these leaks come to light, we should have a better idea of whether to build a gaming PC with an AMD Ryzen 7000 processor.
Source : PC Gamesn
