Upcoming 65W desktop lineup from Intel will see a significant performance bump with the release of the company's updated processor family. A new leak includes confidential information from a motherboard manufacturer that conducted side-by-side comparisons of the already available 12th Gen Core and the soon-to-be-released 13th Gen CPUs.

All tested CPUs were run on the same motherboard with the same memory settings, but it is unclear if they were tested with DDR5 or DDR4 memory. Since only one benchmark was used, the results probably do not reflect the true processing power of the processors as they would be used in a video game. However, the Cinebench R23 test is now the gold standard for comparing CPU performance.

Based on these benchmarks, the Core i9-13900 is expected to perform between 10% and 53% faster in multi-core tests compared to its predecessor. Because of its 8 extra Efficient cores and 500 MHz faster boost clock, the current model's multi-core performance is noticeably better. The single-core performance of alternative CPU models improves by 3% to 6%, while the multi-core performance improves by 28% to 64. The i5-13500 non-K CPU has the largest performance increase, at up to 64%, but the smallest single-core improvements.Each of these processors has a default TDP of 65W and is backwards-compatible with all LGA1700 motherboards. In addition, unlike Ryzen 7000 processors, they are compatible with both DDR4 and DDR5 RAM. On January 3rd, alongside the release of its new B760 motherboards, Intel will unveil all five of its new CPUs.

Leak: Intel 13th Gen Core 65W (non-K) series tested in Cinebench R23