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91%

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93%

PROCESSOR

Intel Core i9-13900HK

37,425 Benchmark Score

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Intel Arc A370M

29,175 Benchmark Score

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70-89

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The Intel Core i9-13900HK paired with the Intel Arc A370M is an unusual laptop combination: a top-bin mobile processor dragged down, relatively speaking, by an entry-level discrete GPU. The benchmark data makes this imbalance plain. The CPU sits in the 85th percentile against all processors, while the GPU manages only the 74th percentile — and the two combined land at the 80th percentile. That spread defines everything about this pairing. Note that no measured FPS rows exist for this exact combination in the database; all frame-rate discussion below is estimated from the benchmark scores rather than direct measurement.

CPU Analysis

The Core i9-13900HK is a 14-core, 20-thread Raptor Lake-H mobile processor built on Intel's 10 nm process, with a 257 mm² die. It runs a 2.60 GHz base clock and boosts to 5.40 GHz — a high ceiling for a mobile part, and one that pays off directly in single-threaded work. The Cinebench R23 single-core score of 1843.5 sits alongside a 16025 multi-core result, a ratio that shows a chip tuned for both burst responsiveness and sustained throughput. The cache hierarchy reinforces this: 80 KB of L1 per core, 2 MB of L2 per core, and a shared 24 MB slab of L3.

That dual character shows up across every benchmark family. Cinebench R15 returns 2398 multi-core and 263 single-core; Cinebench R20 returns 9548 multi-core and 1347 single-core. The Passmark suite adds breadth: 28194 in multithread, 3810 in single-thread, 94120 in integer math, 68020 in floating point, 329454 in data compression, 19198 in encryption, 19534 in extended instructions, 36662 in random string sorting, and 1896 in physics. The compression score in particular is strong evidence that archive work and file processing will feel quick, while the physics result suggests competent game simulation performance on the CPU side.

Context comes from the nearest rivals. With an average benchmark score of 37425, the i9-13900HK is essentially dead even with the Intel Core Ultra 5 235H (37522, a 0.3% gap), the Intel Core Ultra 5 225F (37313, 0.3%), the Intel Core i5-13600K (37685, 0.7%), and the AMD Ryzen 7 7735H (37161, 0.7%). Those are remarkably tight margins. What they mean in practice: this mobile i9 delivers performance indistinguishable from a well-regarded desktop i5 and a contemporary Ryzen 7 mobile chip, all within a 45 W TDP. The multiplier is unlocked, though in a BGA 1744 soldered laptop the practical benefit of that is limited by the chassis, not the silicon.

Balance and Bottleneck

This is a GPU-limited pairing, and the data says so without ambiguity. The processor ranks in the 85th percentile of all CPUs; the Arc A370M ranks in the 74th percentile of all GPUs. An eleven-point gap in percentile terms, with the GPU behind, means that in any graphically demanding task the A370M will finish first and wait. The CPU's 16025 Cinebench R23 multi-core score and 3810 Passmark single-thread score describe a processor with substantial headroom that games and 3D workloads on this GPU cannot consume.

The bottleneck direction matters for expectations. In CPU-bound tasks — compilation, compression, physics simulation — this laptop behaves like an 85th-percentile machine. In GPU-bound tasks, it behaves like a 74th-percentile one, with the A370M's average score of 29175 the limiting number. Because no measured FPS data exists for this exact pairing, frame-rate estimates must be scaled from those GPU scores rather than from in-game measurements, but the scaling conclusion is robust: at higher resolutions and detail settings the A370M's 4 GB of VRAM and 112.0 GB/s of bandwidth become the ceiling, and the i9's surplus threads go unused. Multiplayer titles heavy on simulation would lean on the CPU's strong single-thread result, but the GPU remains the limiting component across the board.

Benchmark Performance

The combined picture is a machine in the 80th percentile overall — a solid placing driven mostly by the CPU. On the processor side, the headline numbers are the Cinebench R23 pair (16025 multi-core, 1843.5 single-core), the Passmark multithread score of 28194, and the single-thread score of 3810. Against its closest rivals, the i9-13900HK's 37425 average sits within a fraction of a percent of the Core Ultra 5 235H, Core Ultra 5 225F, i5-13600K, and Ryzen 7 7735H — the largest gap in that group is just 0.7%.

On the graphics side, the Arc A370M posts a Geekbench OpenCL score of 29676 and a Vulkan score of 28673, averaging 29175. Its rivals bracket it tightly: the AMD Radeon RX Vega M GH (29197, 0.1%), the AMD FirePro W8000 (29211, 0.1%), the Radeon RX 470 (28996, 0.6%), and the Radeon RX 6800M's database entry (28874, 1%). Being within one percent of those parts frames the A370M as a lower-mid-tier GPU by these compute metrics — competent for entry-level discrete work, not a gaming flagship. The OpenCL result slightly exceeding the Vulkan result also indicates the GPU's compute path is proportionally stronger than its graphics path.

Taken together: an 85th-percentile CPU, a 74th-percentile GPU, an 80th-percentile combined build. The arithmetic tells the story — this laptop's ceiling is set by its graphics, not its processor.

FAQ

Q: What is the CPU core and thread configuration?

A: The Core i9-13900HK has 14 cores and 20 threads, built on the Raptor Lake-H architecture at 10 nm.

Q: How fast is the CPU in Cinebench R23?

A: It scores 16025 in multi-core and 1843.5 in single-core, placing it in the 85th percentile of all CPUs with an average benchmark score of 37425.

Q: How does the Arc A370M perform in compute benchmarks?

A: It scores 29676 in Geekbench OpenCL and 28673 in Geekbench Vulkan, averaging 29175 — within 1% of GPUs like the Radeon RX Vega M GH and FirePro W8000.

Q: Is there measured FPS data for this combination?

A: No. The database contains no measured FPS rows for this exact CPU+GPU pairing, so all gaming frame-rate discussion is estimated from benchmark scores.

Q: How much VRAM does the GPU have, and what is its bandwidth?

A: The Arc A370M has 4 GB of GDDR6 on a 64-bit bus, delivering 112.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Q: What memory does the platform support?

A: The CPU supports both DDR4 and DDR5 in a dual-channel configuration.

Q: What is the combined percentile of this build?

A: The pairing ranks in the 80th percentile overall, pulled down from the CPU's 85th by the GPU's 74th percentile standing.

Upgrade Path and Platform

The platform constraints here are inherently mobile. The CPU is soldered to an Intel BGA 1744 socket — there is no socket upgrade path for the processor, and the same applies to the A370M, which is an IGP-slot mobile part with no power connectors. What can be upgraded is memory and storage: the chip supports both DDR4 and DDR5 across a dual-channel bus, so maximizing memory speed and capacity is the one meaningful lever an owner has. PCIe connectivity is PCIe Gen 5 with 8 lanes from the CPU, which is generous for a mobile platform and ensures a fast NVMe drive can be attached without interface limits.

Power is a non-issue by design: the CPU's TDP is 45 W and the GPU's is 35 W, and no suggested PSU figure is specified because this is a laptop — the chassis and its cooling define the sustained power envelope, not an external unit. A sensible next upgrade is therefore not a component swap but a move to a laptop pairing a comparably strong CPU with a GPU in a higher percentile tier, since the A370M is the clear ceiling here. The GPU's production status is End-of-life, which reinforces that this pairing represents a settled, fixed configuration rather than a stepping stone. The integrated Iris Xe Graphics 96EU provides a fallback display path should the discrete GPU ever falter.

Usage Scenarios

High-refresh gaming: The A370M's 74th-percentile standing and its position within 1% of the Radeon RX 470 define the target: esports and lighter titles at moderate settings rather than AAA gaming at high detail. With no measured FPS data available, estimates from the 29676 OpenCL and 28673 Vulkan scores point toward playable frame rates in less demanding engines, with the 4 GB VRAM buffer limiting texture quality in modern titles.

Streaming: The CPU's 28194 Passmark multithread score and 14 cores give it ample headroom to encode a stream while gaming, but the GPU's 74th-percentile ceiling means the game itself, not the stream, is what limits the experience. CPU-side encoding and scene compositing will not be the constraint.

Video editing: Timeline scrubbing and proxy workflows will respond well to the 1843.5 Cinebench R23 single-core score and the 24 MB of L3 cache. Rendering exports lean on the 16025 multi-core result, which is competitive with desktop i5 territory. The 4 GB of GPU VRAM, however, restricts GPU-accelerated effects, so CPU-centric editing workflows suit this machine better.

3D rendering: CPU rendering is a genuine strength — the Cinebench family (2398 R15, 9548 R20, 16025 R23 multi-core) shows sustained throughput near the i5-13600K. Interactive viewport work, though, is GPU-bound and lands at the A370M's 74th percentile, with 112.0 GB/s of bandwidth capping scene complexity.

Software development: This is one of the pairing's best scenarios. The 85th-percentile CPU with 20 threads compiles large codebases quickly, the 329454 data compression score speeds up build artifact handling, and development work places almost no demand on the GPU. The dual-channel DDR4/DDR5 support allows memory expansion for container-heavy workflows.

Student and office work: Excellent fit. Single-thread responsiveness (3810 Passmark) governs the feel of browsers, documents, and spreadsheets, and that score is in the CPU's strongest suit. The integrated Iris Xe Graphics 96EU can handle display duties for mundane tasks, with the A370M available when more GPU muscle is called for.

GPU Analysis

The Arc A370M is a 6 nm TSMC-built Xe-HPG part, the DG2-128 die, packing 7,200 million transistors into 157 mm² at a density of 45.9M per mm². It is an entry Alchemist-tier mobile GPU: 1024 shading units, 64 texture mapping units, 32 render outputs, and 8 RT cores. Tensor cores are not listed for this part. Clocks run from a 1550 MHz base to a 2050 MHz boost, with memory at 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective).

The compute figures define its class. FP32 throughput is 4.198 TFLOPS, FP16 is 8.397 TFLOPS at a 2:1 ratio, the pixel rate is 65.60 GPixel/s, and the texture rate is 131.2 GTexel/s. Those numbers, plus the 112.0 GB/s of bandwidth from 4 GB of GDDR6 on a 64-bit bus, position it firmly as a lower-mainstream GPU. The 8 RT cores mean hardware ray tracing exists, but with one ray tracing block per 128 shading units and only 4 GB of buffer, RT workloads will be constrained in practice.

The benchmark scores translate directly. A Geekbench OpenCL result of 29676 and Vulkan result of 28673 put it within 0.1% of the Radeon RX Vega M GH and FirePro W8000 and 0.6–1% of the RX 470 and RX 6800M database entries. For rendering, the practical reading is that this GPU accelerates light OpenCL and Vulkan compute tasks effectively — the OpenCL score outpacing Vulkan suggests compute is its stronger suit — but heavy GPU rendering passes belong to higher-tier hardware. It connects over PCIe 4.0 x8 and supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4, so API support is modern and complete.

Build Overview

This is a laptop-class pairing — build class laptop — combining a mobile flagship processor with an entry discrete GPU, and the database places it in the 80th percentile of combined builds. The composition is unbalanced by design: the Core i9-13900HK contributes an 85th-percentile CPU profile (37425 average score, 14 cores, 5.40 GHz boost), while the Arc A370M contributes a 74th-percentile GPU profile (29175 average score, 4 GB GDDR6). The 35 W GPU TDP alongside the 45 W CPU TDP describes a thin-and-light or all-round mobile chassis where the processor is the star and the GPU is a modest step up from integrated graphics — here, the Iris Xe 96EU built into the same die. Both chips are Intel silicon, launched in 2022 and 2023 respectively, and the GPU is now End-of-life, marking this as a fixed, complete configuration rather than an evolving platform.

Who Should Build It

This pairing suits users whose work is CPU-weighted. Software developers get a 20-thread processor that matches the desktop i5-13600K within 0.7% on average benchmark score — compilation and container work are its natural habitat. Students and professionals in office productivity benefit from a single-thread score of 3810 and an 85th-percentile overall CPU standing. Content creators doing CPU-bound video editing and CPU rendering will find the 16025 Cinebench R23 multi-core result genuinely useful. Small business workstations doing compression, encryption (19198 Passmark), and data processing are equally well served, with dual-channel DDR4/DDR5 support allowing memory growth.

It is not the pairing for high-refresh AAA gamers or GPU-rendering professionals. The Arc A370M's 74th percentile, 4 GB of VRAM, and 112.0 GB/s of bandwidth cap graphical ambition at esports-tier titles and moderate settings — and with no measured FPS data in the database, that estimate comes strictly from the benchmark scores. Buyers wanting balanced performance should seek a chassis pairing an equivalent CPU with a higher-percentile GPU; buyers wanting a portable, CPU-dominant workstation with a discrete graphics step up from Iris Xe will find this configuration does exactly what the numbers describe.

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