Following Intel’s “early next year” teaser, the CPU-Z benchmarks for the Core i9-13900KS have been revealed. As seen on @LordNotLord’s B-site update, the Raptor Lake-S desktop flagship processor scored an impressive 982.5 single-threaded / 18,453.4 multi-threaded points.
(from @LordNotLaunder)
The exact clock rate and benchmarking platform are not known at this time.
i9-13900K official parameters
But assuming it is running at default RWD, the i9-13900KS will outperform the AMD Zen 4 Riptide R9-7950X by about 15% in multi-threading performance.
R9-7950X score
For reference, the R9-7950X can run a multi-threaded score of around 16,000 at 5.1 GHz on all cores.