Core i9-13900K, E-Core Disabled vs. Enabled. 53 Title Game Standard Showdown | Building a specialized Z computer gaming environment

November 21, 2022CPU

from foreign mediaTechPowerUpbyDisabled/enabled core game benchmarks released for Core i9-13900K E-Core.What is the difference in game performance between disabling and enabling E-Core? Here are the benchmark results for a total of 53 titles.

test environment

CPU: Core i9-13900K (PL1/PL2: 253W)
Mother: ASUS Z790 Maximus Hero (BIOS 0604)
Memory: 32 GB (16 GB x 2) DDR5-6000 36-36-36-76 / Gear 2
CPU cooler: Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280mm (water-cooling)
GPU: GeForce RTX 4090 (Driver 522.25)
Operating system: Windows 10 version 21H2

53 title game standard

1080p

E-Core disabled vs. 1920×1080 enabled

1440 p

E-Core Disabled vs Enabled 2560×1440

4k

Disabled vs. Enabled 3840×2160

Summary

Benchmark results at 1080p showed that the following 17 titles performed better with E-Core disabled.

• control (0.3％)
• Cyberpunk 2077 (1.8%)
• Deathloop (3.0％)
• DOOM Eternal (0.3％)
• Dying Light 2 (0.4％)
• Far Cry 5 (9.6%)
• Ghost Recon Wildlands (0.6 ％)
• GreedFall (7.9 ％)
• Just Cause 4 (0.2 ％)
• metro exit (9.0％)
• prey (8.1 ％)
• Project cars (1.8 ％)
• Ax (1.6 ％)
• Strange Brigade (0.9％)
• Watch Dogs: Legion (0.4％)
• The Witcher 3 (0.4 ％)
• Wolfenstein 2 (3.0 ％)

Of the other 36 titles, 32 had a higher frame rate with E-Core enabled, and 4 did not change depending on whether it was enabled or disabled.

Although there are gaming titles that benefit from having E-Core disabled, most titles run better with E-Core enabled.

Basically, leaving E-Core enabled is fine, but if you want a bit more frame rate gain for a specific title that would be beneficial to disable it, you might want to disable it.