On the bilibili portal, a creator called ExtremePlayer has published the benchmark results using games of upcoming Intel Raptor Lake i5-13600K and i5-13700K processors. They feature a higher core clock speed, larger caches, and a higher number of E.
Many PC users are mostly wondering how this affects the operation of games, since it is the most realistic use by home users. Does Raptor Lake offer gamers a strong enough performance boost to be worth considering?
Good benchmark results using i5-13600K and i7-13700K games
ExtremePlayer results, reproduced by @Harukaze5719 on Twitter, show strong performance gains at 1080p resolution with the i5-13600K over its equivalent from the Alder Lake generation i5-12600K. Using an MSI RTX 3090 Ti Gaming TRIO X, the Intel i5-13600K delivered an average 9,93% increase in average frame rate across 11 gaming tests. At 1440p and 4K, the average frame rates produced with the Intel i5-13600K were slightly higher, and the minimum frame rates increased by 10%.
In the case of the i7-13700K similar performance gains are seen as the i5-13600K over its predecessor. This implies that both CPUs get performance gains from the same source, which in this case would be higher core clock speed, better efficiency cores, and larger L2 and L3 cache sizes.
With performance gains averaging 10%, upgrading from Intel's 12th Gen processors to their 13th Gen counterparts may not be a great value option for gamers already running Alder Lake. But if you expand to a higher range, like going from an i5-12400 to an i5-13700K should be a significant performance boost, due to the higher clock speed and number of cores of the i7.
Using DDR5 memory, slightly larger performance gains were seen going from Intel's i5-12600K to its i5-13600K and from its i7-12700K to its i7-13700K. That said, the performance gains seen in both processor changes remain similar in scope. With the Raptor Lake, in the field of gaming you can expect a noticeable increase in performance. Of course, these gains are not game-changing on such a low margin and if it does make a difference to meeting minimum or recommended requirements, it will take many years to happen.
Source: Overclok3d
