Today's new video from "Extreme Player" on Bilibili, who has tested the Core i7-13700K and Core i5-13600K QS across a range of various games and benchmarks, continues the legacy of Qualification Sample benchmarks. The CPUs were compared to their current-gen equivalents as usual, and famed leaker HXL (@9550pro) found the video.


The test bench is a little different this time than it was the last. Two ASRock Z690 Steel Legend motherboards make up the system (DDR4 and DDR5 version). 32GB of Team Group DDR5-5200 and 32GB of Team Group DDR4-3600 memory are installed on the motherboards. For all systems, the power supply in question is the CoolerMaster Silent Pro M2 1500W. Similar circumstances apply to the GPU, an MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.


It's vital to remember that these are Qualification Samples (QS) before we get to the benchmarks because they could perform and produce heat slightly differently from the final retail products. However, the difference is near enough for us to use these SKUs as the basis for our assumptions.


Artificial performance

Both the Core i5-13600K and Core i7-13700K easily outperformed their predecessors, the Core i5-12600K and Core i7-12700K, in terms of synthetic performance (F). Because Extreme Player conducted independent tests for DDR4 and DDR5 memory, it is quite difficult to assess the charts. Check it out for yourself:


Core i7-13700K vs. Core i7-12700K(F) using
DDR4 and DDR5 memory | Extreme Player via
Bilibili

Core i5-13600K vs. Core i5-12600K using DDR4 and DDR5 memory | Extreme Player via


Basically, when comparing the Core i7-13700K to the i7-12700KF in synthetic benchmarks, the addition of DDR5 RAM scarcely makes a difference. Performance only significantly improves in FireStrike Extreme Physics and Time Spy Extreme CPU. The DDR4 test bench actually wins in FireStrike Physics, which further indicates that DDR5 memory is not yet entirely necessary.

The Core i5-13600K benchmarks further reinforce this idea. The main differences in performance between the Raptor Lake SKU's performance with DDR5 memory and DDR4 memory are the FireStrike and TimeSpy CPUs. We will therefore consider the DDR5 ratings to facilitate comparisons simply for the sake of relevance.

Overall, the i5-13600K outperforms the i5-12600K by around 11.4 percent in the 3DMark benchmark suite. Regarding the Core i7-13700K, it performs the same benchmarks approximately 8.5 percent faster than the Core i5-12700KF. This performance gain is probably due to the higher core counts on both CPUs.

Gameplay effectiveness

We're going to use @haruzake5719's revised charts for the gaming benchmarks because Extreme Player's own charts are so detailed and concentrating on just one type of RAM is so much easier to understand. Haruzake used the average game performance at each resolution to create two charts using the DDR4 data from all four CPUs.