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Rate My PC: Intel Core i9-13900F + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

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Intel Core i9-13900F

51,730 Benchmark Score

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The Intel Core i9-13900F paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 is a desktop combination built around an unusual asymmetry: a 24-core Raptor Lake flagship on one side and a mid-range Ada Lovelace graphics chip on the other. The data makes this contrast stark. The CPU sits in the 91st percentile against all processors, while the GPU sits at exactly the 50th percentile against all graphics cards, yielding a combined percentile of 71. Note upfront: the FACT PACK contains no measured FPS rows for this exact pairing, so all frame-rate discussion below is estimated from benchmark scores rather than direct game measurements.

CPU Analysis

The Core i9-13900F is a 24-core, 32-thread processor built on Intel's 10 nm process at a 257 mm² die size, running a 2000 MHz base clock with boost reaching 5.60 GHz. The "F" suffix means it ships without integrated graphics, which is fine here — the RTX 4060 AD106 handles display duties. Its hybrid Raptor Lake-S architecture pairs performance cores with efficiency cores, and the cache layout tells the story of that design: 80 KB of L1 per core, 2 MB of L2 per core, and a shared 36 MB slab of L3.

What do the numbers actually mean? The single-thread results are strong. Cinebench R23 single-core lands at 5778, Cinebench R20 single-core at 2426, and R15 single-core at 582, with Geekbench single-core at 2533 and PassMark single-thread at 4406. The 3DMark CPU profile is instructive for scaling behavior: 1145 on a single thread, 2265 on two threads, 4393 on four, 7426 on eight, 13985 at sixteen threads, and 13985 at maximum threads. Interesting — the sixteen-thread and max-thread scores are identical, which implies the benchmark saturates before all 32 threads are engaged, or that threading efficiency plateaus at that point.

Multi-core throughput is genuinely high-end. Cinebench R23 multi-core at 40928 and Geekbench multi-core at 19680 describe a chip that chews through rendering, compilation, and batch workloads. PassMark multithread of 49693 is reinforced by granular subtests: 188022 on integer math, 131007 on floating point, 635147 on data compression, 38214 on encryption, 70441 on string sorting, and a notably weak 204 on prime finding — a reminder that some workloads just don't parallelize.

Against rivals, the picture is remarkably tight. The i9-13900F's average benchmark score of 51730 sits within a fraction of a percent of the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (51947, delta -0.4%), the Intel Core Ultra 5 235HX (52073, -0.7%), the AMD EPYC 8124P (52121, -0.7%), and the Intel Core Ultra 9 285T (51310, +0.8%). In practice, the data suggests these chips trade blows depending on workload, with the 13900F holding a slight edge on the 285T and trailing the others by under one percent.

Gaming Performance

There are no measured FPS figures for this exact CPU+GPU combination in the database — measuredFpsUltraByGame is empty and dataIsMeasured is false. Everything here is an estimate derived from the component benchmark scores, and should be treated as such.

What can be inferred? The RTX 4060 AD106's 50th-percentile GPU placement defines the ceiling. With 3072 shading units, 24 RT cores, 96 tensor cores, a 2460 MHz boost clock, and 15.11 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput, this is a card positioned squarely in the middle of the pack. At 1080p and 1440p, the card's 118.1 GPixel/s pixel rate and 236.2 GTexel/s texture rate should sustain high frame rates in most titles, with the 91st-percentile CPU providing far more headroom than the GPU will ever demand — the 3DMark CPU scores of 7426 at eight threads and 4393 at four threads cover typical game threading profiles comfortably.

The constraint is memory. 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus at 272 GB/s of bandwidth is the spec most likely to limit ultra-settings performance at higher resolutions or with ray tracing enabled. Estimates for 4K ultra gaming would be conservative; this pairing is best understood as a 1080p-to-1440p machine, with the CPU rarely the limiting factor in any game scenario.

FAQ

Q: How many cores and threads does the Core i9-13900F have? A: 24 cores and 32 threads, built on Intel's Raptor Lake-S architecture at 10 nm.

Q: Does this CPU support overclocking? A: No — the multiplierUnlocked field is false, so the 5.60 GHz boost clock is the ceiling.

Q: What memory does the platform support? A: Both DDR4 and DDR5 on a dual-channel bus, and ECC memory is supported.

Q: How much VRAM does the RTX 4060 AD106 have, and why does it matter? A: 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus with 272 GB/s of bandwidth. This is the component most likely to limit performance at high resolutions or with ray tracing enabled.

Q: Is the RTX 4060 AD106 still in production? A: No — its production status is End-of-life, with the GeForce 50 series listed as successor.

Q: How does the CPU compare to its nearest rivals? A: Its average benchmark score of 51730 is within 0.8% of the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, Intel Core Ultra 5 235HX, AMD EPYC 8124P, and Intel Core Ultra 9 285T — effectively a statistical tie across the group.

Q: What power supply does the GPU call for? A: A 300 W suggested PSU, with the card drawing 115 W itself via a single 12-pin connector.

Upgrade Path and Platform

The CPU fits Intel Socket 1700 and remains in Active production status. Memory support spans DDR4 and DDR5 in dual-channel — meaning a builder can start on DDR4 and the platform accepts either standard, though a motherboard will support only one of the two. ECC support is a genuine differentiator for workstation use. PCIe connectivity is generous: Gen 5 with 20 CPU lanes, more than the GPU needs, since the RTX 4060 AD106 connects over PCIe 4.0 x8.

Power planning is straightforward from the data. The CPU's TDP is 65 W and the GPU's is 115 W, with NVIDIA suggesting a 300 W PSU for the card. That suggested figure already accounts for a complete system, and given both components' modest combined draw, a builder following the 300 W suggestion retains headroom. The GPU occupies a dual-slot footprint with one 12-pin power connector — worth verifying adapter or native cabling compatibility with whatever PSU is chosen.

What does a sensible next upgrade look like? The GPU is the obvious target. At the 50th percentile and End-of-life, the RTX 4060 AD106 is the weakest link, and its listed successor is the GeForce 50 series. The 91st-percentile CPU could drive a substantially faster card before becoming the constraint, so the platform — Socket 1700, DDR5, Gen 5 lanes — is built to absorb a GPU upgrade without touching anything else.

GPU Analysis

The RTX 4060 AD106 is an Ada Lovelace part fabricated by TSMC on a 5 nm process, packing 22,900 million transistors into a 188 mm² die — a density of 121.8 million transistors per square millimetre. That density figure is striking next to the CPU's 10 nm Intel process, and it explains how a small mid-range die carries a full modern feature set.

The spec sheet: 3072 shading units, 96 TMUs, 48 ROPs, 24 RT cores, and 96 tensor cores. Clocks run from an 1830 MHz base to a 2460 MHz boost, with memory at 2125 MHz (17 Gbps effective). Peak FP32 compute is 15.11 TFLOPS, with FP16 at 1:1 parity — relevant for machine-learning inference workloads that can use half precision. The 96 tensor cores also enable DLSS-class upscaling and AI acceleration, and the 24 RT cores handle hardware ray tracing, both supported through DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), Vulkan 1.4, and OpenGL 4.6.

For rendering, what does this mean? The 236.2 GTexel/s texture rate and 272 GB/s memory bandwidth define the throughput envelope in viewport work and GPU render engines. The 128-bit bus is narrow, and in rendering contexts that translates to slower scene loading and texture streaming compared to wider-bus cards. The 8 GB VRAM pool is workable for 1080p/1440p gaming and modest 3D scenes, but heavy GPU rendering or large texture sets will press against it. The display side is well covered: one HDMI 2.1 and three DisplayPort 1.4a outputs.

Who Should Build It

This pairing suits a specific profile: users whose work is CPU-heavy but whose gaming or GPU needs are moderate. Content creators fit squarely — the 40928 Cinebench R23 multi-core score and 19680 Geekbench multi-core score deliver flagship-tier rendering and encoding throughput, while the 5778 single-core score keeps lightly threaded creative applications snappy. Software developers benefit identically: large codebases compile fast when 32 threads are available, and the 4406 PassMark single-thread score keeps IDEs and interpreters responsive.

Students and small-business workstation users get a capable machine — ECC support on this platform is unusual for a consumer build and adds a data-integrity option for critical work. Gamers at 1080p and 1440p targeting high settings rather than ultra-refresh 4K will find the GPU adequate, though not exciting. Who should skip it: anyone chasing maximum frame rates at 4K, or GPU-rendering professionals whose scenes exceed 8 GB — the card's memory subsystem will wall them off before its compute does.

Benchmark Performance

The exact scores, CPU side: 3DMark CPU profile of 1145 (single), 2265 (2-thread), 4393 (4-thread), 7426 (8-thread), and 13985 (both 16-thread and max). Cinebench R15: 582 single / 4125 multi. Cinebench R20: 2426 single / 17189 multi. Cinebench R23: 5778 single / 40928 multi. Geekbench: 2533 single / 19680 multi. PassMark multithread: 49693, single-thread 4406, with subtests as cited earlier. The average benchmark score across tests is 51730, placing the chip in the 91st percentile of all CPUs — top-ten-percent territory, and statistically tied with its four nearest rivals, all within a 0.8% band.

GPU side, the database contains no individual benchmark entries for the RTX 4060 AD106 and its average benchmark score is listed as 0 — so the percentile figure is the primary anchor. At the 50th percentile against all GPUs, it sits at the exact median of the comparison set: half the cards above it, half below.

The combined percentile of 71 lands this desktop build in the upper third of all pairings. That number is itself diagnostic: it is dragged down from the CPU's 91st by the GPU's 50th, quantifying the imbalance between the two components.

Build Overview

This is a desktop-class build — buildClass confirms it — pairing a 13th-generation Intel flagship with a mid-tier NVIDIA 40-series card. The launch MSRP of the CPU was $524; no launch MSRP is listed for the GPU. The tier, read from percentiles, is straightforward: an upper-mid-tier overall machine built on a top-tier processor. The i9-13900F released on January 3, 2023, and remains in Active production, while the RTX 4060 AD106 released March 31, 2024 and is now End-of-life with the GeForce 50 series as successor. That production-status mismatch matters for long-term builders: the CPU platform is current, while the GPU is already superseded.

Balance and Bottleneck

The bottleneck question answers itself from the percentiles. A 91st-percentile CPU feeding a 50th-percentile GPU means the graphics card limits virtually every game and GPU workload. The evidence is in the scaling data: the CPU's 3DMark profile shows it delivering more throughput with every added thread up to sixteen, capacity that games — which typically load four to eight threads — will never fully draw upon. Meanwhile, no FPS-by-resolution data exists for this pairing to show the GPU scaling past the CPU, precisely because the CPU is never the constraint.

The memory subsystem reinforces the point: 272 GB/s of GPU bandwidth and 8 GB of VRAM will saturate long before the CPU's dual-channel DDR4/DDR5 support and 36 MB L3 run out of feed. For GPU compute and rendering, the same hierarchy holds — 15.11 TFLOPS of FP32 is the ceiling, and the 13985 max-thread 3DMark score is untapped overhead. Only in CPU-bound scenarios (compilation, encoding, simulation) does the balance invert, and there the GPU simply idles. This is a GPU-bottlenecked build in essentially every workload that uses both components.

Usage Scenarios

High-refresh 1080p gaming. Estimated from the scores rather than measured: the GPU's 118.1 GPixel/s pixel rate comfortably covers 1080p output, and the CPU's 4393 four-thread 3DMark score indicates no processor-side frame ceiling. Competitive high-refresh titles at 1080p are the strongest gaming case for this pairing.

1440p gaming. Also plausible on estimates: the 236.2 GTexel/s texture rate supports high settings at 1440p, though the 8 GB VRAM and 128-bit bus mean ultra settings in the heaviest titles may need trimming. The CPU contributes nothing but headroom here.

Streaming. Well served. Encoding while gaming splits load across the die, and the 24-core/32-thread configuration with a 49693 PassMark multithread score absorbs the concurrent encode without starving the game — the CPU has threads to spare beyond what gaming demands.

Video editing. Strong on the processor side: 40928 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 635147 in PassMark data compression translate to fast timeline renders, exports, and media management. The GPU's 96 tensor cores and FP16 parity assist AI-based effects, but the 8 GB VRAM limits heavy multi-cam or high-resolution timeline work.

3D rendering. CPU rendering is excellent — the Cinebench lineage of scores is literally a rendering benchmark, and this chip competes within 0.8% of the Ryzen 9 5950X and EPYC 8124P. GPU rendering is middling at the 50th percentile, constrained by bandwidth before compute.

Software development. Arguably the best-fit scenario. Large builds exploit all 32 threads, the 2533 Geekbench single-core score keeps tooling responsive, and 20 Gen 5 lanes plus dual-channel DDR5 support fast storage and memory — a developer never touches the GPU bottleneck.

Student and office work. Overspecified on CPU and right-sized on GPU — fine for everyday use, with ECC support available as a rare bonus for data-integrity-sensitive work. The modest combined power draw, 65 W CPU TDP plus 115 W GPU TDP against a 300 W suggested PSU, keeps it a practical everyday machine.

Rate My PC: Intel Core i9-13900F + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

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