Intel Core i5-13400: What Real Users Say on Reddit

If the 5700X is cheaper buy that one, but do note that some games seriously favour AMD over Intel and vice versa. 5600 is still great value. 13400 is a minor upgrade over the 12400. For productivity (assuming proper E-core usage) and igpu (not dGPU) cough up some extra for the 13500.

At this price you should be getting a 12600k

No, the 13400F is unaffected.

For $10 more you get the 13500 with: 4 MB more cache, 200 MHz more, 4 more cores, extra encoding unit in the GPU, 8 more EUs in the GPU, newer generation architecture. It's absolutely not comparable to the 12400 in that the 12400/12500/12600 have the same cache and cores.

Allegedly $216 for 13400F, $243 for 13400, retail prices (not MSRP). So probably $199 MSRP for 13400F and $229 for 13400. Which would put it cheaper (13400F) or the same price (13400) as the alleged 7600 pricing. You'd get faster multi-thread, slower ST, but the most convincing part is that you could slap the 13400 into a $100 B660 board with your existing (free) DDR4.

These days.. is there really any benefit in real world gaming in buying anything faster than the 12400/13400?

I wonder how many people buying it are aware they're not buying a Raptor Lake CPU, but an Alder Lake that Intel rebranded into 13th gen.

It actually reportedly doesn't have the new P cores. Everything I've seen indicates this is basically an i5-12600, using Alder Lake silicon basically. If it hits the right price, it'll do well, but it's certainly slower than a 13600K.

Newer games coming out may have better MT performance. I don't understand people that buy high end CPUs just for gaming.

No, the 13400f is rebranded Alder Lake

The lower range of Raptor Lake is rebranded Alder Lake. 13600K and upwards are actually Raptor Lake.

The i5-xx400(F) seems to be the sweet perf/$ spot once again.

I would buy the i5-13500 instead. Four additional E-cores will help in rendering and video editing and in my country it's only like 20€ more expensive.

It doesn't have Raptor Lake P-cores (Raptor Cove) nor the cache changes that affected IPC. It's even mentioned in the article that the 13400 is using the current Alder Lake (8P+8E). All indications have been this will be the case for all locked i5 CPUs.

It's a 12600k with lower clocks for the P-Cores and E-Cores. It comes with a heatsink and is possible cheaper (launch MSRP will likely be lower, but the 12600k is selling below launch prices).

I like having an iGPU purely for the extra bit of freedom it provides when troubleshooting display output problems.

The difference across several games is very small, the 5700X being about 3% faster. The 13400 on the other hand is about 20% faster in Riftbreaker, 15% in Spider-Man, and 5% in CP2077. I would say things are pretty even overall, though the 13400 should be a bit faster outside of gaming thanks to its E-Cores.

The 13400 is basically just a lower clocked 12600k that you can't overclock normally and it's clocked a bit higher than the 12400 is.

All important igpu for emergencies

As far as I can tell, 13600K and above is affected, the 13600 (non-K) and below is fine. All of 14th gen is also affected. The vast majority of affected CPUs are i9s with some people saying i7s are also affected but not as much. The issue seems to skew towards higher end CPUs more.

The 13400F is the chip of concern, it is $196 and therefore cheaper than the 12600K, which comes without a cooler while the 13400F has one. The 5700X is significantly behind the 13400 in the gaming tests here. Also, the 12400F is still not a better value because it is much slower than the 13400F.

Oh thank god!!!!! I have a i5-13400f. People laughed at me cause I wanted a low powered cpu cause of my electric bill. The i5-13400f does go great with my Nvidia geforce rtx 4070 and plays almost anything too.

For office tasks it will be good for a decade. For gaming in 'next gen' games not, just several years. Because game companies do not spend much time on optimization.

It is a decent pairing. There is no such thing as a universal bottleneck (in normal circumstances) some games may demand more gpu or more cpu. So it really depends on what software you are running.

Review videos had the 13400f basically right there in game benches with the 12600k since it's essentially a rebranded 12600k

Thing is that this it's just a locked 12600k in disguise with a new coat of paint. And clocked lower. The 13400f is pretty cheap, but the 13400 is about the same as the 12600k. For anyone that needs integrated graphics.

Actually there are 2 types of i5 13400f: Core i5-13400F stepping B0 = Raptor, Core i5-13400F stepping C0 = Alder

The 13400 is basically a lower clocked 12600k. If you plan to go DDR4 the 12600k will also be better as its vcore won't be locked like the 13400 is.

The 13400 actually doesn't have an advantage over the 5700x in MT, in most MT workloads they perform similarly. The E cores clock at just 3.3GHz and IPC is over 25% lower compared to Zen 3, so windows background tasks may actually run slower than on a full Zen 3 core.

If you are earning Money from it then I highly suggest investing more into 13600k to 13700k.

About as futureproof as the 12400F 12500, 12600, 12600K, 13500, 12700, and 12900

One of the best CPUs in terms of performance/price, especially gaming performance! While a new i3 may become a bottleneck in some situations, this won't with current games. It's even got 4 efficient cores for background tasks! The i5-13400F is a safe bet.

The i5 13400f isn't even a raptor lake cpu but a rebranded i5 12600kf with lower clock speeds and no overclocking ability so it isn't affected, but you have to understand that there is two versions of the i5 13400f — the B0 version which is a raptor lake die and may face stability issues, and the C0 version which is an alder lake die and is completely unaffected.

Get a 13500 or 13600k. 13400 is quite a lot weaker vs these two chips.

It'll be pretty decent. Can always get a 14600/14700 cpu later on if you feel you need more power.

Hardware Unboxed found it to be a few % faster than the 12400/5600 and slightly below a 5700x in gaming (all using ddr4). As this is a 12600k rebrand, the same processor can be had for $12 more in the 12600kf which can be overclocked.

I currently have a 13400 with a 4090 on a build for my wife, she can play anything at 4k without any problem at all, everything works exactly the same as it did with the 12900k she had before, we changed it because the 12900k will get better use on a work build, but the 13400 for gaming and normal tasks works and behave exactly the same but consuming lot less watts.

just buy it, it's an excellent CPU. it's very future proof as it's available for not much money (saving money is the only valid future proofing)

For video Editing get the 13500 instead of the 13400 it has twice the quicksync engines. Especially important for H.265 4:2:2 footage. Also the 3/4 extra E-cores are relatively cheap.

That's exactly what I'm running. Overclock it! That thing is so good for the price.

Depends on your use case. It's a low end in 13th gen, which for a lot of people will serve them just fine for years. For enthusiasts, sim players and VR sim players, it will hold them back.

I have the exact same setup (i5-13400 + RTX 5060 Ti) and I get 230-300 fps with frame gen on in BF6 and 175-240 fps in AC Shadows.