Intel’s efficiency core gamble could pay off – are cheaper, more powerful Raptor Lake PCs the future?

Intel’s Core i5-13500 processor is going to be quite the performer if freshly-leaked benchmarks prove to be on the money. As Tom’s Hardware (opens in new tab) picked up, this comes from Chinese video sharing website Bilibili (opens in new tab) where an engineering sample of the mid-range Raptor Lake CPU was put through its paces in Cinebench R23 and CPU-Z. The Core i5-13500 was no less than 56% faster than its predecessor, the Core i5-12500, in Cinebench R23 multi-threaded (as compared to a sample 12500 benchmark Tom’s flagged up on Tech Notice (opens in new tab)).

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