{"id":102915,"date":"2022-10-20T17:22:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/intel-core-i9-13900k-review-an-amd-zen-4-beater\/"},"modified":"2022-10-20T17:22:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:22:03","slug":"intel-core-i9-13900k-review-an-amd-zen-4-beater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/intel-core-i9-13900k-review-an-amd-zen-4-beater\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel Core i9-13900K review: an AMD Zen 4 beater"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I said in my AMD Ryzen 9 7900X review last month that 2022’s Intel versus AMD CPU battle had only just begun. And now, less than a month later, Intel is back on top. While AMD’s Zen 4 generation brings big gains over its previous Zen 3 desktop chips and 12th Gen-beating performance, Intel’s 13th Gen has regained the overall performance crown. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The flagship Core i9-13900K is priced at $589 (with retailers offering it at around $659 today) and includes 24 cores, 32 threads, and clock speeds up to 5.8GHz. While base clocks have dropped this year, the boost clock speeds of up to 5.8GHz seem to make all the difference for performance, alongside the extra efficiency cores.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Intel has promised up to 15 percent better single-thread performance on its Core i9-13900K over the previous 12900K and up to 41 percent better multithread performance. I’ve been testing a Core i9-13900K over the past week, and it largely delivers on Intel’s promises, with some big multithread performance gains that really speed up the heaviest workloads.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But this might not be the best option for gaming. While the 13900K beats AMD’s top 7950X Ryzen 7000 CPU in the majority of my gaming tests at 1080p, AMD’s impressive 5800X3D still looms large over both the Zen 4 and Intel’s 13th Gen chips when it comes to gaming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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