Intel Core i9 Raptor Lake i9-13900K BOX (BX8071513900K)

A family of absolutely top-end, extremely powerful and most productive 24-core processors that the giant Intel releases on the market for household components. Their performance is close to three years old server chips, which makes them the basis for extremely demanding workstations for editing, rendering, processing big data, working with AI, etc. For gaming PCs, their power is mostly redundant.

All devices from this line belong to the 13th generation of Intel (Raptor Lake), contain 24 cores in total and support 32 instruction streams. Like the 2021 Alder Lake models, it uses a hybrid structure consisting of powerful P-cores and energy-efficient E-cores, which are activated depending on the type and level of load. And since E-cores do not support Hyper Threading technology, the total number of threads reaches not 32, but 24 pieces.

Depending on the specific modification of the Core i8, the main cores support auto-overclocking up to 5.2 - 5.6 GHz for all cores. With the use of Intel Thermal Velocity Boost technology, this figure can rise to 6 GHz, but this is only for one core and not for long. At the same time, the frequency of auxiliary E-cores, depending on the type of load, can range from 1.5 to 4.4 GHz.

In addition, the entire Core i9 family is equipped with 36 MB of L3 cache, supports PCI-E 5.0 interface, and can also work with both types of RAM - DDR4 or DDR5. This is one of the key features of this generation, which distinguishes Core i9 Raptor Lake chips from Ryzen 7000 competitors. Depending on the specific Core i9 modification, the maximum power consumption of the chip can reach 219 or 253 W, so a powerful power supply and a serious system are required in pair with the chip. cooling. For installation in a PC, you will need a motherboard with an LGA 1700 socket, which is also supported by the current generation of Alder Lake chips.