INTEL

Core i9-13900KS has full specs revealed

As part of the announcement of the Raptor Lake desktop processors, Intel has confirmed that in the future it will release another flagship processor that can automatically overclock to 6 GHz right out of the box. Officially, the manufacturer has not released the name of this model, but it is obvious that it was the Core i9-13900KS. Intel's latest major chip leak has confirmed these speculations and revealed the full specs of the upcoming select CPU.

The Core i9-13900KS is a 24-core processor with eight powerful P-cores and 16 E-cores with low power consumption. The processor supports 32 threads. Turbo Boost Max 3.0 technology allows its most productive 1-2 cores to be automatically overclocked to a frequency of 5.8 GHz. An additional 200 MHz of automatic overclocking to the same 6 GHz is provided by Thermal Velocity Boost technology. The base clock of the Core i9-13900KS's large cores is also 200MHz faster than the regular Core i9-13900K at 3.2GHz. At the same time, the energy-efficient cores of the KS version operate in the same frequency range - from 2.2 to 4.3 GHz.

The Core i9-13900KS's nominal power consumption has increased from 125 to 150 watts. However, the maximum consumption has not changed and is 253 watts. The chip supports the same RAM standards as all other Raptor Lake processor models - DDR4-3200 and DDR5-5600.

Shortly after the above leak, the first data on the performance of the Core i9-13900KS in the synthetic Geekbench test also appeared on the web. The processor was tested on a system with an ASUS ROG Z790 Maximus Hero motherboard and 32GB of DDR5-7200 RAM.

Detailed telemetry data from three Geekbench benchmarks indicate that the Core i9-13900KS auto-overclocked multiple cores to 5893 MHz, but its average clock speed was 5867 MHz.

The expectation is that the Core i9-13900KS will be officially unveiled in early January, at CES 2023. It should go on sale during the first quarter of next year.

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