Intel Core i9-13900K (350W) Cinebench scores better than AMD R9 5950X by approx. 67%

With the release of Intel's 13th generation Raptor Lake series CPUs approaching, the Core i9-13900K has been popping up on major benchmarking platforms, but mostly with mediocre performance.

Now, @OneRaichu has released an extraordinary score test where he gets the processor up to 5.8GHz in "unlimited power" mode, perfectly exploiting the maximum potential of the processor without overclocking.

Of course, the power consumption in this case also reached 350W, and the final Cinebench results were about 67% faster than the AMD R9 5950X.

The i9-13900K is also described as a retail chip with 24 cores and 32 threads, that is 8 P-core and 16 E-core, with a total of 68 MB of cache. It achieves a regular frequency of 5.8GHz on the dual cores in "unlimited power" mode, and can also reach 5.5GHz on the 8 P-core at the same time.

He says that in standard 'limited power' mode the processor scores 2,290 points for a single core and 35,693 points for multiple cores, with a maximum power consumption of 253W.

In 'unlimited power' mode, he was able to ignore the CPU power wall and exploit the full potential of the CPU, resulting in a jump to a Cinebench R23 multi-threaded score of 40,616, a 14% increase over the normal state (with no change to the single core).

At the same time, the CPU's power consumption has increased significantly from 253W to 345W, which means that the Core i9-13900K can trade a 36% increase in power for a 14% increase in multi-core performance, so there is a drop in performance.

AMD's Ryzen 7000 series can achieve 35% higher multi-threaded performance than Zen 3 in Cinebench, according to previous reports. So the Ryzen 7000 flagship (up to 230W) is likely to deliver slightly better multicore performance at the same power consumption.