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Intel's Raptor Lake T go on sale

by on13 February 2023


A month late, under specced and over priced

A month late, Intel's new Raptor Lake T series budget CPUs are finally being sold online.

These include the i9-13900T,  i7-13700T, i5-13600T, 13500T, 13400T, and the i3-13100T and no one is really clear why they are late.

Chipzilla's 13th Gen T series CPUs are the lowest power-consuming processors with a 35W TDP.  They are probably not the sort of chip you want to base a build around unless you want a small form factor chassis with little in the way of active cooling. T series chips are popular in prebuilt mini PCs such as Lenovo's ThinkCentre M Tiny series.

All models share identical cache, and core count configurations, but the clock speeds for both the P-Cores and E-Cores have taken a big hit due to the stricter power requirements. They will be pretty low on the buying list for CPUs for gaming or productivity.

CPUs Core Count + L2 / L3 Cache Clock Speeds Base / Boost (P Cores) Prices
i9-13900T 24 (8+16) + 32MB / 36MB 5.3GHz / 1.1GHz $671
i7-13700T 16 (8+8) + 24MB / 30MB 4.9GHz / 1.4GHz $469
i5-13600T 14 (6+8) + 11.5MB / 24MB 4.8GHz / 1.8GHz $308
i5-13500T 14 (6+8) + 11.5MB / 24MB 4.6GHz / 1.6GHz $283
i5-13400T 10 (6+4) + 9.5MB / 20MB 4.4GHz / 1.3GHz $272
i3-13100T 4 (4+0) + 5MB / 12MB 4.2GHz / 2.5GHz $155


The Core i9-13900T and i7-13700T have a 300 MHz reduction in max turbo frequency compared to the i9-13900 and i7-13700, with max turbo clocks of 5.3 GHz and 4.9 GHz respectively. Base clocks are a GHz lower on the 13900T and 13700T at 1.1GHz and 1.4GHz. 

To make matters worse, Chipzilla does not seem to think that gutting the performance of these chips worthy of a significant price drop. The chips hold identical pricing to their non-K brethren. According to CaseKing's listings, the i9-13900T comes in at $671, i9-13700T at $469, i5-13600T $308, 13500T $283, 13400T $272, and i3-13100T at $155.

 

Last modified on 13 February 2023
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