Intel Core I9-13900K Review: Hot and Hungry

by TwoNineAon 10/20/22, 1:47 PMwith 4 comments
by neogodlesson 10/20/22, 2:03 PM

Perhaps what you need to know:

https://static.techspot.com/articles-info/2552/bench/Power-p...

493W system draw under load with a largely idle GPU!

Under load, throttling after just 17 seconds.

by senttoschoolon 10/20/22, 1:54 PM

It's CPU review season again. This means most places will emphasize Cinebench.

Cinebench is a poor general purpose CPU benchmark because:

1. Heavily favors SMT/Hyperthreading

2. Heavily favors CPUs with many slow cores, over CPUs with fewer faster cores

3. Extremely popular today because AMD pushed it in its marketing when Zen1 and Zen2 were favored by Cinebench disproportionally

4. Unoptimized for Apple Silicon/ARM

5. Uncorrelated with gaming

6. Generally poorly correlates with office/dev work

Read more here: https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/pitid6/eli5_why_d...

by philliphaydonon 10/20/22, 2:52 PM

Wow, makes the 7950x look good.

But it is interesting to see the benefit of DDR5 with 13th gen vs 12th gen.