Once again from China these new leaks come on two Raptor Lake processors that will be presented in the first days of 2023: the Core i5-13500 and the i5-13400. You may remember this, but some upcoming 13th Gen CPUs will actually be fake Alder Lake brothers. Only the i5-13500 has been tested in this leak, bearing in mind that the copy going through the mill is an ES sample, ie still far from the final version. The Core i5-13500 is in fact an Alder Lake processor, but with a configuration of 14 cores and 20 threads (6x P-Core + 8x E-Core), while the i5-13400 has a configuration of 10 cores and 16 threads (6x P-Core + 4x E core). The most interesting thing about these two “small” i5s is that they both have a TDP of 65W.
Core i5-13500 & i5-13400: the right choice for early 2023?
The few tests passed with the i5-13500 (again, far from a definitive version) allow us to obtain excellent results that bring this CPU very close to the 12600K. We were able to measure single-core and multi-core performance under CPU-Z. He gets 767 points or 8,227.5 points. Compared to the Core i5-12500, this represents a 10% improvement in single-core performance and a 68% increase in multi-core performance.
Under Cinebench R23, the 13500 scores 1,901 points in single-core and 19,891 points in multi-core. Again, there is a performance increase of 6% for single-core and 60% for multi-core.
To test the heating of this CPU, it was subjected to the very friendly FurMark. The i5-13500 has been found to consume up to 165W of power under heavy load. Additional surprise, while test conditions and cooling remain nebulous, the temperature was surprisingly low around 71ºC.
Earlier this year we hinted that the 13400 would be a choice to look at. It could be similar with this 13500.
Videocardz was able to compile the tests published by Chinese leakers here.