The test shows that Intel Core i9-13900K can give full play to its performance only with Z790 motherboard.

CTOnews.com October 23 news, Intel 13-generation core processor is now on the market, the initial offering of 2499-4899 yuan, along with the new Z790 series flagship motherboard.

@ aschilling conducted benchmark tests on the Z690 and Z790 platforms, respectively. The results show that i9-13900K with Asustek ROG Z690 Hero (BIOS 2103) results in a 25% performance loss. 13900K with Z790 board scored 38288 points in R23 (multithreading). The Z690 platform has only 28911 points, a decline of about 25 per cent.

Similar results are shown in the rendering workload Blender. Using the Z790 series chipset, it can complete the task in 167 seconds, while the Z690 platform can be extended to 209 seconds.

In the mathematical load Y-Cruncher, the difference of CPU performance between the two boards is relatively small. The time of Z790 is 10.12s, which is only 1.8s (18.13%) faster than that of Z690.

CTOnews.com learned that the first batch of 13-generation Core processors include Core i9-13900K / KF, i7-13700K / KF, i5-13600K / KF, the largest single-core Rui Frequency is 5.8GHz, 5.4GHz, 5.1GHz, respectively, and the initial price of Bank of China is 4899 yuan / 4699 yuan, 3499 yuan / 3299 yuan, 2699 yuan / 2499 yuan respectively.