Intel yesterday unveiled a large lineup of new CPUs for the Socket 1700 – PC Games Hardware also reported on it. Already today they are 16 new models available for retail. Across the board, these are CPUs from the 13000 series, but they are all non-K, i.e. not overclockable. Interested buyers should also pay attention to other things – because not all new CPUs belong to the modern Raptor Lake family. Rather, there are also processors with the older Alder Lake architecture. Luckily, this is very easy to pin down by name: all non-K processors with 13000 model numbers in the Core i3 and Core i5 series belong to the Alder Lake family. Only the new non-K models in the Core i7-13700 and Core i9-13900 series offer Raptor Lake. Nevertheless, there is also a positive novelty in the Alder Lake CPUs, at least in the Core i5 models.
In contrast to the 12000 series, they offer Intel’s architecture with efficiency and performance cores. The Core i5-13400 and Core i5-13400F have 6 performance cores that can also manage two threads, as well as 4 efficiency cores with only one thread, so there are 16 threads in total.
With the Core i5-13500(F) and 13600(F) there are even 8 efficient cores and thus 20 threads in total. In the 12000 generation, the non-overclockable Core i5 models only have normal cores.
Nevertheless, because of the Alder Lake architecture, one has to assume that the performance gap of a Core i5-13600 to its overclockable K brother is possibly a bit larger than if it also had the Raptor Lake architecture. The following 10 new CPUs that are interesting for gamers are already available in stores – in bold type as the K-CPUs released last year as a comparison:
- Core i3-13100F – 4 cores, 8 threads – 3.4-4.5 GHz – 130 euros
- Core i3-13100 – 4 cores, 8 threads – 3.4-4.5 GHz – 160 euros
- Core i5-13400F – 6+4 cores, 16 threads – 2.5-4.6 GHz – 230 euros
- Core i5-13400 – 6+4 cores, 16 threads – 2.5-4.6 GHz – 260 euros
- Core i5-13500 – 6+8 cores, 20 threads – 2.5-4.8 GHz – 280 euros
- Core i5-13600 – 6+8 cores, 20 threads – 2.7-5.0 GHz – 300 euros
- Core i5-13600KF – 6+8 cores, 20 threads – 3.5-5.1 GHz – 320 euros
- Core i7-13700F – 8+8 cores, 24 threads – 2.1-5.2 GHz – 420 euros
- Core i7-13700 – 8+8 cores, 24 threads – 2.1-5.2 GHz – 450 euros
- Core i7-13700KF – 8+8 cores, 24 threads – 3.4-5.4 GHz – 440 euros
- Core i9-13900F – 8+16 cores, 32 threads – 2.0-5.6 GHz – 610 euros
- Core i9-13900 – 8+16 cores, 32 threads – 2.0-5.6 GHz – 640 euros
- Core i9-13900KF – 8+16 cores, 32 threads – 3.0-5.8 GHz – 630 euros
There are also six energy-saving T models, but these are not recommended for gamers and do not offer any advantage in terms of price-performance ratio. As you can see, technically there are not 10, but “only” six new CPUs, four of which are also available as an F version without an internal graphics unit.
Since these are currently 30 euros cheaper than the models with IGP and gamers use a graphics card anyway, these CPUs are particularly interesting for a gaming PC. Tests will have to show how the performance and the price-performance ratio look like. We are planning a special on the Socket 1700 update for the coming week.
