After
a lot of leaks and a long period of anticipation that started from the moment
the 12th generation was launched, today Intel announces the new 13th generation
processors at the Intel Innovation event, which included the unveiling of
Intel's new generation processors.
Fortunately,
Intel did not intend to release these processors long after AMD launched the
Ryzen 7000 series in order to ignite the competition more and more. The new
processors will be launched on the 20th of next October and will start at $300.
The
company revealed six different processors, all of which share that they are
overclockable and will come with cores for efficiency and performance, and even
the internal graphics chip for these processors will be overclockable. KF
versions will also be available as usual, which will come at a lower price
since they won't include a graphics chip at all.
New Intel processors details
The
new processors will use the same 600 platforms that the company provided with
the 12th generation processors, and will also support the upcoming 700
platforms. As for the RAM, DDR4 formats will still be supported at frequencies
of 3200MHz, and DDR5 RAMs will be supported at 5600MHz.
If
you are going to update, don't worry. Cooler and more memories won't cost you
this time.
The
new processors introduced, ranging from Core i5-13600K/KF to Core i9-12900K/KF,
are built on the Intel 7 manufacturing precision we saw in the last generation.
The best here is the power consumption, and this is because the 13th generation
processors compete with the performance of the last generation with higher
efficiency.
The
new generation processors are similar to the previous generation in some
points. The first is that the number of performance cores is the same as the
numbers of the previous generation, but the number of efficiency cores has
doubled. The lowest processor will provide 14 cores and the highest processor
will provide 24 cores, knowing that the lowest processor will provide 20
threads for processing, while the highest processor will provide 32 threads.
The
cache in the second stage of this generation has also been doubled compared to
the previous generation, in order to speed up the communication between the
processor and RAM.
According
to Intel, the Core i9-13900K processor will outperform the Ryzen 9 5950X in
gaming by up to 58% on frame rates. There is also a noticeable difference
against the Core i9-12900K with AAA games, the company says.
The
company also commented on content creators, who are getting with this
generation an improvement in the performance of their programs such as Blender
and Adobe Premiere Pro. There is a 34% boost in performance, according to the
company.
Intel
also announced the first Arc Alchemist card designed for gaming, the new A770
card, the most powerful card from the company's new product line, to be
launched on October 12, before the launch of the 13th generation processors.
what about the price and power draw?
Prices
on the Core i9 and Core i7 processors are surprisingly the same as last year,
despite Intel warning of price increases to its flagship chips earlier this
year. The Core i5 is the only processor getting a price bump, with the Core
i5-13600K moving to $319, up from the $289 pricing of the Core i5-12600K.
Similarly, the Core i5-13600KF (without built-in graphics) is priced at $294,
up from the $264 of last year’s model. It remains to be seen whether we see
these suggested prices from retailers, though.
While
price increases have only affected the Core i5 this year, power requirements
are up all around. All Core i5, i7, and i9 chips have a base power of 125
watts, but the Core i7 and Core i9 will both need 253 watts for their max turbo
power. That’s a 5 percent jump from the 241 watts on the Core i9 last year, but
it’s a massive 33 percent jump for the Core i7, which moves from 190 watts last
year to 253 watts for the 13th Gen. Intel’s Core i5-13600K now needs 181 watts
for max turbo, up 20 percent from the 150 watts on the Alder Lake version.
The
Core i7 and Core i5 power requirements are surprising, especially as many pick
these chips for gaming when they don’t need the raw power the Core i9 offers.
Intel's first gaming card details
The
company's president, Pat Gelsinger, revealed the new card, which will cost just
$329 for its limited edition. The new card will provide the full ACM-G10 chip
that comes with 32 Xe cores for graphics processing.
It
is worth noting here that the card will come with 8 GB and 16 GB, but the
limited edition card will only come with 16 GB.
The
company claims that the new graphics card will provide 65% better ray tracing
performance with games than the competition cards, and the competition cards
they are talking about are mostly RTX 3060 and RTX 3060 Ti because the comment
on performance as a whole was compared to this duo.
The
company hasn't said anything about the A750 and A580 cards, but at least we can
confirm that revision copies are now on the way for reviewers of the A770 LE
cards to see if they deliver the claimed performance.
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The
new cards will be available for sale on the 12th of next October and will be
sold through Intel's partners, and the company has also published the pictures
of these cards that you can see above.
These
were all data from the same manufacturer, and we are waiting to get our hands
on these processors and also compare them with what AMD presented with the new
generation on the 20th of next October. Stay tuned!
And Are you thinking of buying these cards? Or
will all your eyes be on the new RTX cards on the same day?