Desktop i9-12900K and i7-13700K are outperformed by the Intel Core i9-13900HX 8P+16E mobile processor.

This 2023 International CES, Intel’s “Raptor Lake” microarchitecture will be made portable. The firm intends to significantly expand its 13th Gen Core processor family for notebooks, ultraportables, convertibles, tablets, and pretty much any portable PC form-factor. The high-end enthusiast mobile parts have CPUs with the same 8P+16E core configuration as the desktop Core i9-13900K, as well as support for enthusiast features like overclocking. These processors have TDPs in the 55 W to 65 W (or greater) range.

The Core i9-13900HX, Intel’s latest mobile flagship, has already seen some of its initial benchmarks leaked on social media. The chip’s Geekbench score places it faster than the Core i7-13700K (8P+8E) and Core i9-12900K “Alder Lake” (8P+8E) desktop processors, which benefit from power limitations of up to 251 W, base power of 125 W, and a somewhat laxer power-management system than a mobile processor like the i9-13900HX. The CPU outperforms the desktop i7-13700K with scores of 2039 in the single-threaded test and 20493 in the multi-threaded test (which in turn is faster than the i9-12900K). The processor’s highest P-core boost frequency, according to Geekbench, is 5.40 GHz, which isn’t too far off from the 5.60 GHz of the 65 W desktop i9-13900 (non-K). Several 13th Gen Core “Raptor Lake” mobile processor SKU announcements are anticipated from Intel, while the first mobile GeForce RTX 40-series “Ada” GPU version announcements are anticipated from NVIDIA during CES.