The 13th-Gen Intel Core family includes the “world’s fastest desktop processor.”
Intel announced its latest generation of processors earlier this week, the 13th-Gen Intel Core family. The head of that family is the new Intel Core i9-13900K, which Intel describes as the “world’s fastest desktop processor” with a clock speed up to 5.8GHz. It and five other unlocked desktop chips (the top-end “K” processors) are kicking off the launch of the 13th-Gen Core family, which will include 22 total processors. The “K” chips will be available starting on October 20, 2022.
The 13th-Gen chips are built on a matured version of the Intel 7 process, according to the company, and they’ll provide up to 15 percent better single-threaded performance than the previous generation. Even more impressive is multi-threading performance, which will be up to 41 percent better thanks to a higher number of Efficient-cores (E-cores) across the board—up to twice that of the 12th-Gen chips. The new processors support DDR5 memory (5600MHz and 5200MHz) as well as DDR4 memory, and offer up to 16 PCIe Gen 5.0 lanes. The chips also boast a bigger L2 and L3 cache.
To support the new chips, Intel also announced the new Intel 700 chipset—though the 13th-Gen chips will also be compatible with existing Intel 600 chipset-based motherboards.
“We are raising the standards of PC performance once again with our latest generation of flagship 13th-Gen Intel Core Processors,” said Michelle Johnston Holthaus, executive vice president and general manager of the Client Computing Group at Intel, in a news release.
