I have not heard of a single 13600 affected by the micro code or the oxidation issue.... 

Basically everything in Poser is single core accept cpu rendering, and running at 5ghz versus 4.4 make a significant difference on everything running single core... Everything...... If anything else is running on the system at the same time, the difference will be even greater due to the 1.2 ghtz difference in base clocks...

Those 8 Ecores, not 4, make heavy lifting on the 13600 twice as fast as a 12400, on basically every benchmark on the planet that would affect a Poser user.... Stating otherwise is a bit off to me... I have built and tested systems with both processors..

13600 scores about 24k in Cinebench multicore on a cheap b660 motherboard, 12400 is lucky to top 11k on the best motherboard....

That is just over twice as fast from those 8 Ecores and a Pcore speed increase...

Those 8 E cores you claim do little make it over twice as fast rendering on the CPU, even in Poser..... The difference is about the same as in Cinebench speed wise.

FYI 12 and 13 gen processors are the basically the same thing in side, Alder Lake..... They use the exact same P cores, Golden Clove.....  The only difference between a 12400 and a 13600 is the speed of the P cores, and the additional 8 cores beside it that make it twice as fast in multicore in nearly everything a Poser user would do on it......

It is well worth the difference in price, to get the performance boost with everything....

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