As a tip from a Twitter user HXL, (opens in new tab) Intel’s 13th Generation Raptor Lake CPU lineup shows serious numbers against AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 series processors in Blender Benchmark. Intel’s Core i7-13700K competes with the Ryzen 9 7900X, while the Core i5-13600K beats out the Ryzen 7 7600X and Ryzen 7 7700X.
Blender for beginners is an open source content creation tool that can perform a variety of tasks such as 3D rendering, video editing, modeling, animated VFX and more. As a result, the program can be CPU and GPU intensive, making it a great tool for benchmarking.
At the top of the list is AMD’s 16-core giant Ryzen 9 7950X, which scores 607.53 points. Beneath the Ryzen 9 7950X sits a 24-core Core i9-13900K at 557.66 points. Next is the Ryzen 9 7900X with 462.39 points, the Core i7-13700K with 429.7 points, the Core i5-13600K with 358.18 points, the Ryzen 7 7700X with 305.51 points and the Ryzen 5 5600X with 234.65 points.
This Blender benchmark run is exciting to watch and shows how powerful Intel’s hybrid microarchitecture is now in the form of Raptor Lake. Based on these numbers alone, we can see that Intel regained much of the multi-core performance it lost to AMD in 2017 when Ryzen first launched.
| CPU | Score |
|---|---|
| Ryzen 9 7950X | 607.53 |
| Core i9-13900K | 557.66 |
| Ryzen 9 7900X | 462.39 |
| Core i7-13700K | 429.7 |
| Core i5-13600K | 358.18 |
| Ryzen 7 7700X | 305.51 |
| Risen 7 7600X | 234.65 |
AMD’s Ryzen 9 parts are the only two chips that can beat Intel’s Raptor Lake CPUs in Blender’s heavy multicore workloads. The Ryzen 9 7950X is 9% faster than the Core i9-13900K and the Ryzen 9 7900X offers 7.6% more performance than the Core i7-13700K.
But again, given Intel’s pricing strategy, the results aren’t all that great.
(Note: Technically Intel’s Core i7-13700K results were using an older version of Blender – version 3.2.1 instead of version 3.3 which all the rest of the chips are using. phonics, (opens in new tab) Version 3.2.1 benchmarks slower than 3.3, so Core i7-13700K will probably be faster in version 3.3).
Coming into the Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 part, Intel has completely dominated both halves with the Core i7-13700K and Core i5-13600K. 17% and 51% faster respectively.
It will be interesting to see how Raptor Lake fares once we see the architecture in the coming weeks. is.
