Intel® Core™ i7-13700K

The Core i7-13700K “Raptor Lake” is one of the three processor models that Intel launched this month. While we reviewed the i9-13900K and the i5-13600K, we’re posting our i7-13700K review just now. The 13th Gen Core “Raptor Lake” desktop processor family gains significance as it’s the last processor lineup from Intel to use a monolithic silicon, as the company plans to pivot to chiplets with its IDM 2.0 manufacturing strategy, with Meteor Lake and beyond. Raptor Lake also doubles down on the company’s Hybrid architecture, which let it win big against AMD’s rampaging “Zen 3.” The idea behind this is that even the most demanding client workloads don’t need more than 8 high-performance cores (P-cores), and a large number of power-optimized yet reasonably fast efficiency cores (E-cores) should fit the bill for multi-threaded workloads.