The upcoming Intel Core i5-13600K outperforms the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

Another upcoming Intel Raptor Lake CPU has been leaked online. This time, it’s a mid-range CPU — an Intel Core i5-13600K with 14 cores including six high-performance P cores and eight efficient or E cores with a maximum clock speed of 5.1GHz.

The Intel Core i5-13600K has a maximum TDP of 125W, which is similar to the Intel Core i5-12600K. Similarly, the CPU is based on 10nm fabrication (Intel7) and is compatible with the LGA 1700 socket, so, the CPU can be used with 12th Gen Intel Core supporting motherboards.

Intel Core i5-13600K performance

According to the leak, an engineering prototype of the Intel Core i5-13600K with manual overclocking was used. According to the leak, the CPU will offer a single core clocked at 5.1GHz, while the rest of the P-cores can go up to 4.9GHz. Similarly, the E-cores have a clock speed of 3.9GHz.

After overclocking, the Intel Core i5-13600K, with all P-cores running at 5.1GHz, while all E-cores running at 4GHz, provides slightly better single-core and multi-core performance. Again, the CPU runs at 173W at boost clock speed (with overclocking), which is a bit on the higher side.

Intel Core i5-13600K benchmark numbers

According to the leak, the Intel Core i5-13600K scored 830 points on the single-threaded CPU-Z benchmark and a little over 10000 points on the CPU-Z multi-threaded benchmark. The Intel Core i5-13600K’s single-threaded performance is better than the Ryzen 9 5950X, the flagship consumer CPU from AMD.

When it comes to multi-threaded performance, the performance of the Intel Core i5-13600K is pretty good, even though it has fewer CPU cores than the Ryzen 9 5950X. Again, the Intel Core i5-13600K’s real-world performance is slightly lower than the leaked numbers, especially for those running the CPU at base clock speed.

With the upcoming 13th generation Raptor Lake CPUs, Intel seems to be optimizing both performance and power efficiency to deliver better real-world performance without getting really hot. In fact, even 13th generation Intel Core CPUs offer slightly higher clock speeds when compared to 12th generation Intel Core processors.

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