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Captain_Yuri said:

Intel A380 Ray Tracing performance

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-arc-a380/35.html

It is actually surprising as to how good Intel's first attempt is. This is slower than a 6400 in Raster but in Ray Tracing, it is doing well above 6500XT. Now obviously, these aren't playable framerates but it is exciting to see that Intel's first attempt is pretty good after RDNA2's disappointing Ray Tracing performance. I'll be interested to see the A770's RT performance.

I agree that it's a good first attempt, maybe on par with Turing if not better (we didn't get RT in low end cards back then). We'll see how the higher cards manage it.

By the way, AMD has launched a tool that could be useful for devs:

AMD Introduces Radeon Raytracing Analyzer 1.0
https://www.techpowerup.com/297265/amd-introduces-radeon-raytracing-analyzer-1-0
Today, the AMD GPUOpen announced that AMD developed a new tool for game developers using ray tracing technologies to help organize the model geometries in their scenes. Called Radeon Raytracing Analyzer (RRA) 1.0, it is officially available to download for Linux and Windows and released as a part of the Radeon Developer Tool Suite. With rendering geometries slowly switching from rasterization to ray tracing, developers need a tool that will point out performance issues and various workarounds in the process. With RRA, AMD has enabled all Radeon developers to own a tool that will answer many questions like: how much memory is the acceleration structure using, how complex is the implemented BVH, how many acceleration structures are used, does geometry in the BLAS axis align enough, etc. Developers will find it very appealing for their ray tracing workloads.

Captain_Yuri said:

Intel Core i7-13700K and Core i5-13600K tested, higher performance with higher power consumption

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-core-i7-13700k-and-core-i5-13600k-tested-higher-performance-with-higher-power-consumption

"In test such as CPU-Z the i7 sees a 10% boost in single-core test and 32-34% better score in multi-threaded. The i5-13600K, in other hand has 5% 39-41% uplift respectively."

Take it with a grain of salt. I will say an i5 going up to 178 watts is a bit nutty though.

The performance improvements don't look exactly great. The single-core increase is a bit low, specially with the 13600K and the multi-core one goes in line with the increased number of E-cores:

• 12700K = 8+4 cores => 13700K = 8+8 cores, 33% more, in line with the 32-34% increased performance
• 12600K = 6+4 cores => 13600K = 6+8 cores, 40% more, again in line with the uplift

And that's with higher core clocks as well!

Given the new power comsumption, these new CPUs will be a hard sell if the retail units perform like in these tests.