A few weeks after the launch of the Intel Core 13 for desktops, its specs have been fully leaked and they bring with them some very bad news. In particular due to the increase in the price of electricity, since new models can consume much more and be more expensive in the long term due to their impact on the electricity bill. Should Intel reform its approach to the consumption of its processors? How much do the new Intel Core 13 consume?
One of the peculiarities of Intel desktop processors in recent years are the so-called PL1 and PL2 modes. The first of these is the normal operation of the processor, the second is much higher consumption to achieve higher speeds. By logic, PL2 lasts for a very short period of time to avoid excessive CPU overheating, but during this period we can see that they can double the TDP. This led the blue brand to a paradoxical situation, since if a few years ago AMD was accused of poor performance per watt compared to its rival, it is now the case of Intel.
The Intel Core 13 can reach up to 253W
This is not what we say, but the official Intel document where the specifications of the various processors of the Intel Core 13 desktop range, also known as Raptor Lake-S, are reported. As you can see in the right column, in the image below we see that the i7-13700KF, i7-13700K, i9-13900KF and i9-13900K can reach 253W energy consumption. A figure 12 W higher than the 241 W of its predecessors. If the most modest models remain in the 181W11 W of TDP more than the top of its rival, the Ryzen 7000.
As for the most important changes from one architecture to another, we really already knew most of them. We have things like increased E-Cores and cache size which were previously known, as well as the support for faster DDR5 memorya. In general, it’s not a drastic change like the one we saw in Intel Core 12 and instead we end up with an optimized version of its predecessor, with the possibility of reaching higher speeds and with better performance in multithreading.
Chipset Changes for Intel Z790 Motherboards
Another of the information that we have seen officially leaked concerns the specifications of the Z790 chipset, which will be launched at the same time as the Intel Core 13 and we will be able to install twelfth and thirteenth generation processors in it, using the LGA1700 socket.
And what improvements are there over the Z690? Well, apparently they are rather few, for starters we need to it went from 16 PCI Express 3.0 lanes to 8 and from 12 PCI Express 4.0 lanes to 20. Which means that in the case of PCIe, the total bandwidth has increased. For the rest, there are no changes to highlight or at least we haven’t seen them filtered yet.
