Soon after announcing the initial line-up of 13th Gen Core chips, Intel introduced an even more powerful CPU. Coming in early 2023, the Core i9-13900KS will be the world's first 6GHz processor. Intel didn't share much more than that, but the first CPU-Z benchmarks have just emerged on Chinese social media, giving us the first glimpse at its performance.

A screenshot showing the CPU-Z scores of the Intel Core i9-13900KS shared by HXL shows the upcoming CPU scoring 982.5 points in the single-core benchmark. The KS model scores 40 points higher than the standard 13900K, which likely comes down to the additional 200MHz boost speed, allowing the KS model to hit 6GHz.

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— HXL (@9550pro) September 28, 2022

In the multi-core test, the upcoming Core i9 Special Edition CPU scores 18,453 points, a 9.3 percent increase over the Core i9-13900K running without power limits.

The new Core i9 chip looks like a reaction to the upcoming Ryzen 7000X3D chips, which are also expected to be introduced in early 2023.

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KitGuru says: It looks like Intel's 6GHz CPU will be doing battle with new Ryzen V-cache CPUs in the early parts of next year. 

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