Intel® Core™ i9-13900K Processor
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Expert reviews
The overall review score is calculated from averaging this product's international review scores.
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12/27/2022
SummaryNot quite a clean sweep over AMD's flagship, but it's still monstrously fast
topnewreview.comProsBlisteringly fast at multithreaded work, Excellent lightly threaded performance, Cheaper than Ryzen 9 7950X,
ConsRyzen 7 5800X3D matches it in games, Very high power draw, Limited overclocking
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11/11/2022
SummaryBuy the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X if you want… Latest technology (5nm processor)Affordability and Great value for moneySpeed and performance GamingUse DDR5 ram + PCIE 5.0 Buy the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X for USD $539 – X670/X670E motherboard recommen...
funkykit.com
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11/03/2022
SummaryWell, the hits keep on coming, Intel has managed to push the limits even further now with the 13th Gen CPUs, especially with the i9-13900K which has a crazy max turbo speed of 5.8 GHz. In all of our single-core and single-thread tests, the 13900K took...
lanoc.org -
10/25/2022
SummaryOne thing that became apparent as I saw some results that slightly favored running with a power limit, vs. without any limits it is possible that our Core i9-13900K, when running without any limits and often peaking above 300 W, was thermally limited. Sho...
pcper.com -
10/23/2022
SummaryIntel Core i9-13900K and Intel Core i5-13600K - test units provided by Intel GermanyWith Raptor Lake, Intel sends a worthy successor to the Alder Lake generation into the ring. It was also time for this, since with its current lineup, AMD has raced ahead...
notebookcheck.netProsvery high gaming performance, high application performance, very good multi-core performance, low power consumption during idle operation, up to 32 threads, PCI Express 5.0, appropriate cost of the 13600K
Consextremely high power consumption under load, high cost of the 13900K
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10/21/2022
SummaryThis is the most impressive CPU money can buy right now, but you have to have a very good reason to buy this over the excellent Core i5 13600K...
pcgamer.comProsFastest in games, Mighty multithreaded performance, Super quick and responsive, Cheaper 600
ConsDo you really need it?, The Core i5 13600K is tough to beat for performanceperdollar, Power hungry, Hot, Slower than Alder Lake in some games
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10/20/2022
SummaryPower aside, AMD and Intel are both in very competitive position right now. Despite coming at the problem of PC performance with two vastly different architectures (who had Intel leading the core count wars on their 2022 bingo card?), the two have arrived...
anandtech.com -
10/20/2022
SummaryThe Intel Core i9 13900K with its eight P cores, sixteen E cores, a total of 32 threads, higher clock speeds, and a large L2 cache certainly paid off. From where we stand and based on some other reviews that included the AMD 7000 series, this looks to be...
fudzilla.com -
10/20/2022
SummaryWe're a little staggered as to how good the 13900K is performing, we feel that intel did a proper job here. Today's win however will go to the 13600K processor, read here as to why that is. Back to the flagship. Intel did things right, we see a hugely fas...
guru3d.com -
10/20/2022
SummaryIsn't it fun when something arrives and you start off with thinking one thing, and end up coming away with quite a different impression?We know from past experience that the Intel Core i9 processors are fantastic performers, and we are nothing if not obse...
overclock3d.net -
10/20/2022
ProsExceptional performance, Competitive price, High core count, Integrated graphics can game
ConsRuns hot
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10/20/2022
SummaryHot of the heels of AMD's Zen 4 series launch, here comes Intel with their highly anticipated 13th-gen Core series, codenamed Raptor Lake. Today we're going to review the top-of-the-line Core i9-13900K which is set to arrive at $660, meaning it's set to g...
techspot.com
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