Intel Core i9 13900K Review

Blender 3.3.0

Blender Open Data is a platform to collect, display and query the results of hardware and software performance tests – provided by the Blender community.

Available now on Blender.

Moving onto rendering tests and within Blender, the 7950X manages to take the crown with a 10% lead over the 13900K, but with a 6% increase in price over the 13900K, it’s a tough one to call based on this single test. More performance for more money yes, but as we’ve seen so far, it’s not that consistent across multiple tests.

Cinebench R23

Cinebench is a real-world cross-platform test suite that evaluates your computer’s hardware capabilities. Improvements to Cinebench Release 23 reflect the overall advancements to CPU and rendering technology in recent years, providing a more accurate measurement of Cinema 4D’s ability to take advantage of multiple CPU cores and modern processor features available to the average user. Best of all: It’s free.

Available now on Maxon.

In trusty Cinebench, the single core performance of the flagship 13th generation CPU sees a 12% gain over the 7950X which actually falls behind the i7 13700K as well, showing that the 13th generation range as a whole clearly has better performance overall.

In Multi-core performance, the battle draws closer, but the i9 still manages to take the lead by a margin of less than 1%, which considering it’s priced so much better than the 7950X, gives Intel the crown for both single core and multi-threaded performance.

Corona 1.3

Test and compare the performance of your CPU using this free benchmark application, which is built upon Corona Renderer 1.3.

Available now on Corona

Corona ends up becoming a fierce battle with both the 7950X and 13900K tying for that top spot at 36 seconds to render the complete scene, which is insanely fast and a nice step up from the 12900K when comparing how far Intel have come in one generation,

Keyshot Viewer 11.2.1

KeyShot Viewer is a free, stand-alone desktop application that enables secure sharing of KeyShot scenes for interactive, photo-realistic 3D model viewing, presentation and configuration, using the same real-time ray tracing render engine as KeyShot to produce amazing visuals with speed and quality.

Available now on KeyShot.

In Keyshot Viewer, the more expensive 7950X does push ahead by 4% over the 13900K, but we still see very strong performance from the 13900K which leaves the 7900X behind with a 27% lead.

V-Ray 5.00.20

V-Ray® Benchmark is a free standalone application to test how fast your system renders. It’s simple, fast and includes three render engine test.

Available now on Chaos.

In V-Ray, the 13900K loses out to the 7950X which pushes ahead with a 12% lead, though the 13900K does sit just under 20% faster than the 7900X but is also 20% more expensive so I guess you could say you really do get value for money based on performance.