Intel Core i9-13900K Review

1. Introducing Intel Core i9-13900K2. Intel's bold claims about 13th Gen3. Performance and Testing: Cinebench R234. Cinebench R23 Single Core, Blender and HandBrake5. Performance: AIDA64 and 3DMark6. Gaming: Far Cry 6 and Hitman 37. Gaming: SOTTR and Borderlands 38. Closing Thoughts9. View All Pages

Cinebench R23 Single Core

Core i9-13900K boosts to 5.8GHz on two cores and that features allows it to dominate the Cinebench Single Core performance chart.

Blender v3 – Classroom test

The brutal grunt of AMD Zen 4 allows the Ryzen 9 to beat Core i9 by a small margin in Blender.

HandBrake H.264 conversion

Handbrake H.264 conversion is effectively a tie between Ryzen 9 and Core i9 with faster DDR5 adding a handy boost to Intel.

HandBrake H.265 conversion

HandBrake H.265 conversion yields very similar results to the H.264 test, except this time AMD has a clear win.

7-Zip v21

In 7-Zip we once again see the mighty Ryzen 9 7950X ruling the roost and the margin of victory is huge.

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