When it comes to Intel’s hybrid architecture featured on their 12th and 13th gen processors, you’ll often hear that you’re better off disabling the E-cores as they don’t provide any benefit to gaming performance. I decided to put this to the test myself and benchmarked 40 games to see if we truly get better gaming performance with the E-cores disabled rather than enabled. I used my Intel Core i7-13700K CPU which features 8 performance cores and 8 smaller efficient cores for a total of 24 threads. It also has its P-Cores overclocked to 5.5GHz, E-Cores overclocked to 4.5GHz, and the ring clock has also been overclocked to 4.9GHz. I expected going into this to be a waste of time, but a lot of these results did surprise me.

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:43 E-Cores Background
02:40 Test System Specs
03:59 Benchmarks
10:52 40 Game Average and Conclusion

TEST SPECS
CPU: i7-13700K 5.5GHz P-Cores, 4.5GHz E-Cores, 4.9GHz RING
CPU Cooler: Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 AIO
RAM: Patriot Viper Venom RGB 6000 C32
Motherboard: MSI Z790 Carbon Wifi
GPU: MSI RTX 4090 Gaming X Trio
SSD: Corsair MP600 Pro 4TB
PSU: EVGA 1000 G3

Memory Overclocking & Tuning Is a MUST – 13700K XMP vs Manual OC
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MSI Z790 Carbon Wifi overview & Test Bench upgrade
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