Although several of Intel’s 13th Generation Core ‘Raptor Lake’ processors for notebooks are scheduled to launch later this year and release dates are expected to be adjusted, up until this point no benchmark data for those chips had leaked. However, some of the results of the testing that Intel’s partners do on the new CPUs unavoidably make their way online.
Today, the benchmark scores of the Intel Core i5-13600HX processor were unintentionally (or allegedly) published in BAPCo’s CrossMark test (via @momomo us). The CPU has 14 cores and can handle 20 threads at once, which translates to either a configuration with 6P + 8E or 4P and 10E cores (we assume the latter). The Intel Core i5-12600HX processor has 12 cores (4P + 8E cores), which provides some context.
The AlderLake-S SBGA DDR4 SODIMM CRB (customer reference board) from Intel, which is furnished with 32GB of DDR4-3200 memory, two 1TB SSDs operating in RAID mode, and a 4K display, was used to evaluate the CPU.
It is important to remember that Intel’s HX processors are intended for tiny form-factor desktops with good cooling as well as laptops that can replace desktops. These CPUs have a base power of 55W and a maximum turbo power of 157W.
It needed to compare the outcomes of Intel’s Core i5-13600HX (with a balanced power profile) with the Core i5-12600H because HX CPUs from Intel are not particularly well-liked by users of the general-purpose CrossMark benchmark.
The problem is that all of the latter findings were acquired on a system with a Full-HD panel, making the comparison unfair. To provide some extra context, we compared the best (which employed the best performance power profile) and worst results of the model i5-12600H.
It’s also important to note that BAPCo’s CrossMark benchmark has three groups of tests (consisting of seven sub-scenarios): Productivity (document editing, spreadsheets, web browsing), Creativity (photo editing, photo organisation, and video editing), and Responsiveness (application launches and the file opens taken from other sub scenarios). These groups of tests are intended to illustrate general system performance and responsiveness “using models of real-world scenarios.”
We doubt that BAPCO’s CrossMark can accurately depict the difference between Intel’s Alder Lake and Raptor Lake because all of these situations are fairly generic, even though they can quantify the difference between a low-end Core i3-powered machine and a high-end Core i9-based system.
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